Word: glovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minnesotans are proud of that. After the 1967 riots, in the intelligently direct style of most Minnesota politics, businessmen, civil rights leaders and educators met to organize the first Urban Coalition chapter in the country. Today blacks are often among the state's more enthusiastic boosters. Says Gleason Glover, executive director of the Minneapolis Urban League: "For a black, Minneapolis is one of the truly outstanding cities in the U.S. to live in. The problems here?housing, education, discrimination, unemployment?are manageable ... There just isn't the real, deep-seated hatred here that blacks often encounter in other cities...
...Great God Brown, currently being revived by Manhattan's New Phoenix Company, is a compendium of these aspects of the lesser O'Neill. It is a drama of split personality. The protagonists, Dion Anthony (John McMartin) and William Brown (John Glover), are physically two but psychically one. The play is a duel of opposing forces within the same being. Anthony stands for Art untrammeled by mundane affairs; Brown for the etiolated Babbittry of Commerce. But Dion is himself divided, his first name standing for Dionysius, the creative-erotic life force, and his last name Anthony for "a saint...
LINEBACKERS. Steve Brown, Oregon State, 6 ft. 2 in., 225 lbs., Jim Youngblood, Tennessee Tech, 6 ft. 3 in., 235 lbs., and Rich Glover, Nebraska, 6 ft. 1 in., 234 lbs. Brown is a savvy, savage defender who all but took Stanford apart singlehanded in one game last year with 22 tackles and three interceptions. "He really eats 'em up," says one scout. "There's no getting away from him. When he hits a man on the 20-yd. line the man goes down on the 20-yd. line." Youngblood is touted as the "finest middle linebacker around...
Johnny Rodgers, winner of the Heisman Trophy, and Nebraska teammate and lineman Rich Glover were named to the Associated Press All America team for 1972. Cornhusker defensive end Willie Harper also made the team...
...difficulty finessing his way through the surrealistic script. The New Phoenix's leading lady. Katherine Helmond, does well in the role of Margaret, and Marilyn Sokol is fine as Cybel, although offhand it's difficult to picture how an Earth Mother should be. Best of all is John Glover as Billy Brown. Quick and versatile, the play's few moments of glory...