Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JIMMY SHINE is an attempt at an inner journey by Author Murray Schisgal. The trouble is that it doesn't go anywhere. Jimmy Shine is a transparent character; to see him once is to know him totally. What makes him a winning loser is Dustin Hoffman's bravura performance. Hoffman takes thimblefuls of humor, absurdity, poignance, honesty, desire and passion and drains them as if they were foaming crystal goblets of dramatic life...
...likely event that there will be no breakthrough in the Paris talks in the next month, the new Administration must then attempt to find a settlement formula. If he cannot achieve the "honorable" terms he talked of during the campaign, Nixon's prospects for a successful Administration are practically nil. Beyond Viet Nam, Nixon is pledged to a "new diplomacy." Its aim is to concentrate heavily on the search for common ground with the Soviets and the rehabilitation of the Atlantic Alliance, to reach understanding
...reaction of Ethos' members to the COWI proposals can best be described as sympathetic disinterest. "Ethos," explained Karen Williamson, "is still trying to get the proposals of last spring accepted. They are sort of vaguely included in the COWI proposals. These proposals are an attempt to involve the rest of the student body, so they are watered down.... They are too weak to get our support...and are not even controversial any more. People feel that commentary on the proposals is enough. My feeling is that that's fine and dandy. Now back to business...
...Their attempt to sit in quietly and observe the Faculty meeting...
...between Harvard and Radcliffe, and it is on this level that those who do not ordinarily use the bus should support it. The on-campus Cliffe faces the continuous disadvantage of being nearly a mile away from the hub of campus life. The bus, as such, is a tangible attempt to bridge an unjust gap. As to the practicability of eliminating the inequity completely by instituting an all-day bus system, I know not; but certainly the night bus is a step in the right direction. From the Harvard student's point of view, the bus facilitates socializing--with Lesley...