Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three central demands of the student rebels at Columbia--the cutting of Columbia's ties with the Institute for Defense Analyses, the halting of construction on the gymnasium in Harlem, and the granting of amnesty to six students who had participated in an earlier demonstration aimed against I.D.A.--were called "inadequate causes for an uprising, when stripped of their context and symbolism...
Amory--a Harvard Law School professor for six years--is also former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency and chief international director for the Bureau of the Budget...
...film version has taken the relationship between John Singer (Alan Arkin), the deaf-mute who unites the five disparate subplots of the novel, and a young girl named Mick (Sondra Locke), and made it the central theme of the movie. Curiously, although we now see more of Singer, he has become a guardian angel rather than the guiding light he was in the novel. One no longer has the feeling that his presence is essential in the lives of most of the characters. He now just hovers about at a distance. Singer's tragedy--the fact that he never really...
...actor and a director are the play's most impressive assets. In the central role, Donald Pleasence gives a performance of atomic power and blinding virtuosity; Harold Pinter directorially chills the stage to doom temperature. The very first scene bursts on the playgoer with somber eclat. In an elegant private chapel, dim as a catacomb, a finger of light rests on Pleasence as he kneels rapt in prayer. The Verdi Requiem saturates the air like incense. Suddenly, the stage is ablaze with light, louvers are turning, and the backdrop becomes a penthouse view of Manhattan's skyscrapers...
Helmsley is busy building two Manhattan skyscrapers and a hotel that will face Central Park. This may seem like enough to keep him occupied, but his appetite for real estate is still growing. Last month, he agreed to buy the stock of the Furman-Wolfson Trust, which owns property valued at $167 million in a dozen cities. It will cost him, he figures, $75 million in cold cash...