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...been a recurrent draw to major actors ever since. For Jim Dale, a manic clown who won a Tony for walking a tightrope in Barnum, and Stockard Channing, a lopsided-grinning gamine best known for mugging her way through the movie Grease, there could scarcely be better parts to broaden their images. Brian and Sheila cannot have anything like a normal life if they keep their helpless spastic daughter Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully to audiences, the story is not their sorrow but their admirable...
Former Illinois congressman John B. Anderson, who bolted the Republican Party is 1980 to make an independent run for the Presidency, said last night that he hopes the GOP will broaden its voter base, stressing the need for a "pragmatic coalition-building effort...
...serious claims of assimilation. At present there are but five Black professors on campus holding full tenure. There are no Chicano or Native American professors holding full tenure on this campus. My call for a Third World Center is based on the faith that it would serve to broaden the Harvard perspective, assist in the complete mutual understanding and elimination of the stereotypes vital to interracial relationships, and in doing so raise minority representation in University positions to more appropriate proportions...
...editors think they responded to their new legal protection by relaxing their standards of research and caution. Says Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires: "Sullivan helped make us less conscientious and considered. It also made us overconfident and cocky." Nevertheless, the Supreme Court during the next few years continued to broaden press protection to include coverage of "public figures"--people who did not hold an official position but who had voluntarily made themselves newsworthy by involvement in public matters...
...hope to broaden the profile of the audiences that attend Loeb events," he continued, "I really hate the way the ART [American Repertory Theatre] patrons look at the Ex and don't know what it is, what's inside." He added that the HRDC hopes that, if a specific audience for dance or film events is drawn to the Ex, they will return for other projects...