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...first time Coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) meets his new team, everyone witnessing the encounter knows intuitively that whatever obstacles lie in their path, the Hickory Huskers are going to win the high school basketball championship of Indiana this season...
...similar spirit moves in his actors. Hackman is wonderful as an inarticulate man tense with the struggle to curb a flaring, mysterious anger. Barbara Hershey is just as fine as a teacher trying to put a dispassionate face on a passionate nature. And Dennis Hopper brings some fresh, forceful observation and a jittery melancholy to his characterization of a onetime star athlete who has become the town drunk. There is a quirky authenticity about these figures, and the landscape they inhabit, that one does not expect to find in movies whose chief business is to warm the heart...
...involved, either as unwitting coconspirator or victim, in something more menacing to the commonwealth than a few dirty political tricks. These dawning hints of complicity give him an excuse to renounce political expedience and square himself with his former wife (Julie Christie) and his sometime mentor (Gene Hackman), who function here as the voices of liberal conscience...
Last week, even as it contemplateddropping "Social Relations" from its name, thedepartment announced that one of the world'sforemost experts on social organization would becoming to Cambridge in an unprecedented jointappointment by the Psychology and Social RelationsDepartment and the Business School. R. J. Hackman,currently a professor at Yale University, isconsidered to be one of the world's foremostexperts on small group behavior. At the B-School,Hackman will be able to study the "real lifesituations" Bales considers so important. "It's astep in the right direction; it's a step towardintegration," says the elder professor...
Riesman also points to Hackman's appointment,and cites the significant number of psychologistsat the School of Education as evidence thatinterest in the synthesis of the social sciences,relatively young disciplines, continues...