Word: edmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself. But even the average draftee who does not oppose the war in Viet Nam does not completely understand it, and is moved by no strong motivation to join it. "If students, for example, could feel the peril, more of them would be willing to go," says Dr. Edmond Hallberg, dean of students at California State College at Los Angeles. "Today they are more interested in the future of man, in the abstract, than in the national interest...
...LONG HOT SUMMER (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A dramatic series based on Faulkner's stories, with Edmond O'Brien...
...author tell it, his motives for writing the book were purely humanitarian. "From the moment that the Jews are no longer a minority but a majority," he explains, "the Jewish problem, which is one of a minority, ceases to be one." Barons Guy (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1963) and Edmond de Rothschild went to court on the grounds that the book contained "a string of intolerable defamations and offenses to the dignity and consideration of a great family." In defense, Peyrefitte's lawyer argued that the Rothschilds, "like all the greats of this world, are open to public criticism...
Justice Rouanet de Vigne-Lavit agreed with the defense, ordered Peyrefitte's publisher merely to delete eleven lines of the 514-page book that raise a question about Edmond's lineage. Crowed Peyrefitte: "This time the Rothschilds have been beaten by the mind, by literature. They thought they were strong enough to win this one because they had Pompidou. At least this proves that the government is still honest." And that authors have a lot of leeway...
...romance is obviously doomed, despite group therapy and a volley of platitudes spouted by Eartha Kitt, Richard Conte and Edmond O'Brien, who with marginal success impersonate three real-life directors of Synanon House. Most of the time they appear to be running out-of-town auditions for Actors Studio. The movie's vacuous approach to a heartbreakingly grim subject is underscored by the presence in the film of bona fide former addicts, asked to do nothing whatever that might keep a misguided movie from going...