Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OBERLIN COLLEGE Elliott C. Carter, D.Mus., composer. Kenneth B. Clark, L.H.D., psychologist. The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, L.H.D., director of Operation Breadbasket. A leader who, both in just and tenacious thought and action, seeks to help his fellow men, young and old, white and black, to build a more just and moral social order. Carl B. Stokes, LL.D., mayor of Cleveland...
...booted out of the Canadian Officers Training Corps for lack of discipline." Not so" he said. "I failed to come up to academic and health standards, and was not considered leadership material." Which may come as a surprise to 21 million Canadians, since today Pierre Elliott Trudeau is their Prime Minister...
Viet Nam Veteran Harry Bailey (Elliott Gould) returns to a university for his M.A. in education. Older than the New Left, younger than the Old Guard, Harry falls between two schools. Ideologically unencumbered, he teaches the joys of lit. to a class of semiliterate teenagers-and the joys of sex to Jan (Candice Bergen). But before anyone can say Mark Rudd or Ronald Reagan, the campus is aflame, cops begin beating on kids, and though Harry quietly rejects the stance of the radicals, he maniacally attacks the pose of the administration. Seething at Harry's rebellion, a ring...
...firm stand toward its actors: it is against them. Producer-Director Richard Rush sets his cast at shriek level. Even the elegant Candice Bergen, who at last seems ready to break through plaster casting (The Magus, The Adventurers), is given too much to yell and not enough to say. Elliott Gould is a natural clown; his hands are an act in themselves, and his hair seems to be coiling for a strike. Yet only once does Getting Straight allow him an original scene. At the oral exam for his degree, Harry Bailey is called upon to defend his thesis...
Proof of Support. In Ottawa, Canadian Premier Pierre Elliott Trudeau, who as the national Liberal leader abided by Canadian custom and did not get involved in the provincial politicking, hailed the vote as "a victory for Canada -proof without any doubt that Quebec people overwhelmingly support federalism." It was also a victory for Quebec's Liberal Leader Robert Bourassa, who at 36 will become the youngest Premier in Quebec's history. A lanky professor of economics and fiscal law, Bourassa, who took over the provincial party leadership only last January, campaigned on a platform of "making federalism work...