Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defeats at the hands of St. Louis and Hartwick were easy to take for Harvard fans because we could picture these schools as the "Big Ten" of soccer, schools that nurtured and recruited national champions from the grade school level. Somehow Harvard was the "folk hero" when the Crimson faced the uniform blue sport coats, insignias, and crew cuts of St. Louis in San Jose, Cal., two years ago. In each of the losses to St. Louis and Hartwick the margin of victory had been a mere goal. Defeat was easily rationalized as a bad bounce or unfortunate breaks...
...puddle, but Director William Friedkin (The Night They Raided Minsky's) sets such a frantic pace that there is hardly a chance to notice, much less care. The connection is a French businessman (Fernando Rey) who arrives in New York City with a multimillion-dollar shipment of high-grade heroin stashed underneath a car door. By dumb luck, a couple of tough narcs get onto the deal and chase "Frog 1" and his friends all around the town, turning New York into Gun City in the process...
...Oscar in West Side Story, and Bill Cosby, who after five seasons gave up Hollywood TV series to pursue a doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts. Cosby is not unfamiliar with academic slow starters-in worse days he had to do a rerun of tenth grade. The second bananas are all first-rate, notably Judy Graubart, whose roles include Julia Grownup; Skip Hinnant, the Don Adams-style sleuth, Fargo North; Lee Chamberlin, as Rosalie the fortuneteller; and Morgan Freeman, the elongated Flip Wilson cast both as Easy Reader and a soul-sound disk jockey...
...George Jackson this first incarceration at the Youth Authority's Paso Robles School was just another holding action. While at Paso Robles, he completed the tenth grade and did a great deal of reading; however, he formulated no sense of purpose, nor was any viable aid given to help him do so. Most important, nothing about the outside world was changing for the better while he was in the reform school. Watts was still going to be Watts when he was released, which would mean that it was going to be worse than when he had left...
...York have attempted to persuade the public to accept. To a large degree, the authorities were successful. Abetted by the Establishment media, they mustered all the representations of the prisoner as a dark and irrational man justly separated from the world of civilized men that have appeared in B-grade films and novels and armed these stereotypes with the most explosive rhetoric of insurrection and hate. In so doing, they have succeeded in turning public attention from the question of why these incidents occurred in San Quentin and Attica to how they occurred...