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...backtracks to gather up a few platitudes about fate, courage and honor, and asks his actors to breathe life into them. The burden falls to O'Toole, whose best lines are in his clean-cut profile and whose mannerisms parody his flashy style in Lawrence of Arabia and Becket. Each time his manhood is tested, O'Toole's eyes fill with tears and a hand drifts to his throat as if to ward off a fainting spell. Everything he does looks intensely talented. But it hardly ever looks like Lord...
...growing edge of the U.S. population explosion-Los Angeles-welcomed the growing edge of another U.S. explosion-culture. The Pavilion, first and most important building in Los Angeles' new Music Center for the Performing Arts, was open at last, and the crowd that swarmed through Architect Welton Becket's tapered white columns on opening night last week was justifiably moved to civic pride...
...Music Center has spread Buff Chandler's fame as a fund raiser across the land. Recently she was asked for her formula by three representatives of the seven-building, $45.5 million John F. Kennedy Civic, Educational and Cultural Center for Nassau County, L.I., also designed by Welton Becket, which will begin to rise late next year...
Lord Chancellor Gardiner has a job centuries older than the Prime Minister's, a title once held by two English saints (Becket, More) and Francis Bacon, a $34,000 salary that is tops in the British government, and the unique power to simultaneously help make, execute and interpret the laws of Britain. As the government's chief legal adviser, Gardiner is a top-level Cabinet officer. As head of the legal profession, he appoints judges and Queen's Counsel (senior barristers). As Speaker of the House of Lords, he perches on the symbolic Woolsack, also presides when...
Fargo theaters had special showings of "problem" movies, such as Becket and Black Like Me, followed by panel discussions on their meaning. There were neighborhood kaffeeklatsches at which parents discussed ways of raising the moral standards of their teenagers. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, who once taught economics and sociology at Roman Catholic colleges, lectured on the moral problems of political responsibility, while New York Attorney William Stringfellow, an Episcopal lay theologian, addressed the bar association on law, conscience, and civil rights...