Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JIMMY SHINE is an attempt at an inner journey by Playwright Murray Schisgal. The trouble is that the trip leads to nowhere. Jimmy Shine is a transparent character. 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 goblets of dramatic life...
...brother officers in neighboring countries to seize on the Communist threat as an excuse to take power. Such reports may be groundless, but they reflect the concern in South America that democratic governments, whatever their shortcomings, are more threatened today by their protectors than by their enemies, as they attempt to wrestle with their social and economic problems in an era of turbulence and change...
...bring back exiled King Constantine and put the junta out of business. The breaking point came late last month, when Papadopoulos overruled a decision by his fellow military officers and stayed the execution of Alexandros Panaghoulis, a 30-year-old army private who had been convicted of an assassination attempt on the Premier's life...
...some measure of sympathy. Essentially, the movement remains devoted to what Hoffman calls a "free America," by which he means an America in which no body has to pay for anything. In the upcoming Nixon Administration, the YIP will doubtless find ample targets for further demonstrations-perhaps an attempt to levitate the Treasury Building. Nothing violent, though. Alone among all the anti-Establishment revolutionary forces in the U.S., YIP doesn't believe in it. "Although I admire the revolutionary art of the Black Panthers," says Abbie, "I feel guns alone will never change this System...
...happier results of the attempt to hold an open faculty meeting in Paine Hall is that the "moderate" positions on ROTC have been brought out for public view. Professor Stanley Hoffmann, who gave no sign at Paine Hall that he had other reservations about the abolition of ROTC than a fear of faculty backlash, now states that "I recognize the right of students to pursue military preparation as one extra-curicular activity among others." In other words, he would rather not have to deal with military men as colleagues, but they have a right to go about their business...