Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OTHER FOUR CHARACTERS are just as assured. Susan Ehrlich's Sandra is an appropriate mixture of the fun-loving and the affably neurotic; Joe Mobilia's Arnold--the social worker with his heart in his glasses--is perfect; and David Goldbloom, as Leo Herman, plays what amounts to a certifiable chipmunk with energy and a brilliant voice. Ira Fink's picture of Murray's brother bears an uncanny resemblance to Dick Van Dyke, and is probably better at hamming...
...creating what? Historian Arnold Toynbee finds that "a real beginning of fusion" is under way, raising the prospect of the first genuinely European era since the early 16th century of Erasmus and St. Thomas More, when Latin-speaking scholars could still wan der freely over a continent that had not yet been divided by the Reformation, the first stirrings of nationalism and embryonic dreams of empire. On the eve of Prime Minister Edward Heath's talks with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn last week, the normally restrained London Times not only praised Brandt's "moral authority...
...Viet Nam War has caused some Europeans to question the future of the Atlantic Alliance. Historian Arnold Toynbee, who strongly believes that the U.S. should reduce its military presence in Europe, notes that "South Viet Nam has suffered even more than North Viet Nam, and for America's other allies this is rather a warning as to what can happen. The risk of being a Czechoslovakia is less than the risk of being a South Viet...
...Arnold Miller, president of the United Mine Workers (UMW), described last night how his disillusionment with the leadership of the UMW led to frustrating efforts at reform and finally to his election as head of the 195,000-member union...
Richard Morant, as Gerald Flashman, is an ideal smirking cruel dandy, and Iain Cuthbertson, as the headmaster Doctor Arnold, presents an acceptable outward resemblance to the pious Victorian reformer. But in attempting to portray Arnold at all on television, problems arise that Hughes never faced in his novel. On a TV screen there is no way to show the headmaster as he appeared to a 12-year-old boy. So taking refuge in a stereotype is pardonable, even if the stereotype is something of a distortion...