Word: alford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stewart reluctantly gets caught up in the war when the youngest of his six strapping sons (Phillip Alford) is captured by Yankee troops, later to be snatched from death's jaws by his former playmate, a freed slave. The rest of the family goes searching for him, enduring separation, fear and wanton slaughter, before they return home just in time to ride off for Sunday services at the village church. There, naturally, the lost son hobbles in on a makeshift crutch. Shenandoah's final comment on the futility of war conveys the odd impression that it couldn...
Signing the manifesto were: G. Octo Barnett, research associate; Stanley Cobb '10, Ballard Professor of Neuropathology; Gene W. Dalton, assistant professor of Organizational Behavior; Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion; William H. Forbes '23, lecturer on Physiology; Lester Grinspoon, instructor in Psychiatry...
...There is no question about his greatness," according to Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity. In a history of philosophy in the twentieth century, Firth says, Lewis will be ranked along with John Dewey, George Santayana, and Alfred Noyes Whitehead, even though he was a "philosopher's philosopher" unknown to the layman...
...Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck's Oscar-winning performance as Atticus Finch is good, but the kids (Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and John Megna) almost steal the show in this pleasant screen version of the Pulitzer-prizewinning novel...
...story about a famous singer who goes to London to sing, gets involved in a child-custody wrangle, ends up on the lonely side of the rainbow. To Kill a Mockingbird. Gregory Peck's Oscar-winning performance as Atticus Finch is good, but the kids, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford and John Megna, almost steal the show in this pleasant screen version of the Pulitzer-prizewinning novel...