Word: alvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play takes an almost maddeningly undramatic form. The first act consists of an interrogation of the murderer's husband (Richard A. Dysart) by a man who stands in the shadows and is known as The Questioner (Alvin Epstein). In the second act he interrogates Claire Lannes (Mildred Dunnock). The husband is a dull, evasive clod of a businessman, and the first act is enough of an ordeal to put a playgoer's patience in doubt. The second act redeems all. As certain healers are adept at touching the body to ease pain. Playwright Duras is skilled at touching...
...Ralph Meeker, as the ruthless moonshiner, is all sinister smiles and barely repressed violence. The music, sung by Johnny Cash, is slick and unemotional. The main flaw is that the love affair between Alma and the sheriff lacks the qualities of desperation and frustration that would make it convincing. Alvin Sargent's script does not help matters much with such ritual movie Southernisms as "Eat your beans, Grandpa" and "Would you like a Dr Pepper?" Peck succeeds in conveying the sheriff's vulnerability but never his passion...
...other NCAA finals. Philadelphia Textile upset Penn State, 2-1, and will play Howard next Saturday for a berth at the NCAA finals. Howard, led by Trinidad freshman Alvin Henderson, beat Navy, 2-0, to advance to the quarterfinals...
...Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean of the Harvard Medical School, has resigned from the black advisory board of Who's Who in America because the publication scrapped plans to issue a separate volume on black Americans...
Another major development in Med School admissions is the Minority Group Recruitment Program, under the direction of Alvin F. Poussaint,associate dean for Student Affairs, which was begun in 1968. The program sends out recruitment teams composed of a Med School Faculty member and one or two students to draw minority group applicants. The program is having some difficulty reaching qualified applicants early enough so that they can make the Med School deadline, said Elizabeth Nielsen, an administrative assistant in the recruitment program...