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Also honored were: William G. Bowen, the president of Princeton University; Rudolf Serkin, the concert pianist, Masao Maruyama; a Japanese historian; and Lloyd C. Elam, a nationally known psychiatrist...
Dating of the objects shows that a settlement existed in the area as early as 4000 B.C. That would make it almost 1,000 years older than any city previously known to have existed in Central Iran. The desert settlement was thus apparently contemporary with the Mesopotamian kingdoms of Elam and Sumer, which were located in the Fertile Crescent region of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and have long been considered the first civilized cultures. Equally intriguing, some of the artifacts found near Shahdad are so similar to those from Elam that archaeologists suspect that trade flowed regularly between...
Still, there are some excellent things in Hannie Cuulder. Hurt Kennedy's direction is robust, the scene about learning to shoot a pistol is superb, and the homicidal Three Stooges - Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin (both of The Wild Bunch) and Jack Elam - are the best bad guys around...
...with his eyes half-closed. He had spoken in agreement with the majority during the session, defending the call for more black doctors. In the red sun, his trimmed beard had ragged, blue-black edges. Bill Clay had sat in the middle of the panel table while Dr. Lloyd Elam, president of Meharry, had called Knowles, the former head of Mass General and now president-designate of the Rockefeller Foundation, and de Vise on the carpet for "unconscious racism." One black woman in the audience became so upset with de Vise that she requested the black member of the panel...
...with his eyes half-closed. He had spoken in agreement with the majority during the session, defending the call for more black doctors. In the red sun, his trimmed beard had ragged, blue-black edges. Bill Clay had sat in the middle of the panel table while Dr. Lloyd Elam, president of Meharry, had called Knowles, the former head of Mass General and now president-designate of the Rockefeller Foundation, and de Vise on the carpet for "unconscious racism." One black woman in the audience became so upset with de Vise that she requested the black member of the panel...