Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they often lived in close proximity and fraternized casually. Once the barriers of segregation came down, it became apparent that whites and blacks had more in common in the South than they did in the North. "There was an understanding between the two peoples," says Terry Sanford, president of Duke University. "Human relations always existed, and the other side was made up of people, not just an unknown mass...
...read most of his works. He liked Arthur Schlesinger's A Thousand Days, an account of Kennedy's presidency. He thought Plain Speaking, the profile of Harry Truman by Merle Miller, was especially instructive. His favorite "trade book" is The Presidential Character, an analysis by Duke University's James David Barber of the traits that make for strong and weak chief executives...
...plus some hot packs and massage for her ailing back, was enough to put First Lady Betty Ford back on her feet and on her way to New York last week. The occasion: the start of a two-week tribute to Composer Duke Ellington by the Alvin Ailey modern dance company. Ford, who once studied with Martha Graham, may have lost a few moves over the years, but obviously none of her enthusiasm. Backstage the First Lady partnered with Dancer Judith Jamison for a few smooth steps, then confided: "I still practice my ballet exercises in a large bathroom with...
what our seemers be," says Duke Vincentio (Sam Waterston) as he sets out, disguised as a friar, to play God like some sadistic schoolboy among the seamy souls who inhabit his city. Vincentio wants to re-establish law-and-order, but he leaves the governing to Angelo, a celebrated Puritan played like a young Robespierre by John Cazale. Angelo believes in absolute justice but soon declines into lechery and official murder. Meanwhile the city fathers can't even clear the streets of prostitutes. A black pimp, brilliantly played in high camp by Howard Rollins Jr., asks, "Does your worship...
...object of Rosalind's sporting. Kenneth Welsh makes him sufficiently fervent and brave. Orlando is Shakespeare's most athletic hero, and Welsh is stocky and muscular. But as staged here he certainly doesn't deserve the prize in the wrestling match, though this is not the reason the evil duke, in a nice touch, takes the purse of money away from him. As Charles, Edwin Owens speaks far better than we would expect of a professional wrestler...