Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that she encounters problems not with the school, but with the Catholic Church. The Church offers few professional job opportunities for lay people. In Coffin's words, "the only thing you can do is religious education." Consequently, the Church pays less attention to students training for non-clerical religious careers than the students would like. Coffin switched from the MTS to the M.Div. program to open other career options besides college teaching, but still is uncertain about her future. She foresees no special problems being a woman entering the Church's male-dominated organization. "Lay men are in just...
...that I was perturbed at myself for missing the best game of my undergraduate career after witnessing all those abominations would be quite an understatement. You might say I despised myself...
...described a literary intellectual as the sort who put his audience into a bathysphere and took them down three feet. He could not have met Leslie Fiedler, who, along with Norman Mailer, is one of the most daring skinny-dippers in U.S. literary and social criticism. Throughout a long career that includes some brilliant fiction (Nude Croquet, 1969), Fiedler has boldly led his readers down whirlpools of the national subconscious. In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), he argued that the country's literature was obsessed with death and therefore incapable of developing mature heterosexual themes. Such...
...from the script but from the gut, and he seemed dangerously unpredictable, like a high-tension wire torn from its moorings. For the better part of a decade, Clift was the star producers sought first. But then, in the longest suicide in Hollywood history, he crushed both life and career under an avalanche of booze, pills and inexplicable anguish. He was only 45 when he died in 1966, but most people, himself included, had already attended his funeral a dozen times before...
...Betsy will probably be rock-bottom for Laurence Olivier; let us hope in the future that he accepts projects that will not mock the accomplishments of a heroic career. Maybe a legion of his fans could from a club to intercept and screen all scripts before they reach him, discarding Harold Robbins and Ira Levin in the process. But then again, in accepting the role of Loren Hardeman, Olivier accepted the challenge of a role unlike any he had done before. At age 70, Laurence Olivier still has enough daring to teach us all a lesson...