Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUBJECT WAS ROSES. In this adaptation of Frank D. Gilroy's Pulitzer prize-winning play, Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen bring poignant substance to the bleak story of an Irish family in The Bronx struggling to understand their relationship to one another...
Worst of all, local politicians warned that the Waterbury speech would be a disaster. United Auto Workers local chief Frank Santiquido had promised a crowd of 10,000 and wanted Humphrey to speak from a U.A.W. balcony. But George Wallace's appeal among the auto workers clearly precluded any such turnout. Murphy, fearful that Humphrey would be shouting down from a balcony to a handful of people, drove to Waterbury and moved the speaker's platform down to the green...
...first mission, he smuggled an unauthorized steak sandwich aboard the spacecraft. In mid-December 1965, during the rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7, Schirra pulled to within a foot of the other spacecraft and held up a sign for Gemini 7's command pilot, West Point Graduate Frank Borman. It read: "Beat Army." Later, on the same flight, he reported that he had sighted "an object" going into polar orbit. "Stand by," said Schirra, "it looks like he's trying to signal us." He then whipped out a harmonica and began to play Jingle Bells...
...responsible for the transformation is Stage Director Frank Corsaro, 43, who believes that operatic tradition is often nothing more than a catalogue of yesterday's clichés. As he showed with his productions of La Traviata and Madama Butterfly, Corsaro is a determined spoiler when he confronts the creaking plots of traditional opera. If he wants to bring on familiar characters at unexpected moments, he does so. If he decides to invent minor characters, he does that...
After graduating from the School magna cum laude in 1948, Sacks clerked for Justice Augustus Hand of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Later, he clerked for Justice Felix Frank-furter of the U.S. Supreme Court and practiced law in Washington before joining the Faculty...