Word: harriet
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Field's performance however derives much of its power from the screenplay written by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr.--it's hokey as hell but it plays. Motivated by a magazine article by Henry F. Leifermann, the screenplay delineates the growing bond between Norma Rae, a hard-assed little cracker and Reuben (Ron Leibman) a New York Jewish labor organizer who comes down to unionize her factory. Refreshingly, their bond stems not from wild, trans-ethnic couplings but from a shared philosophy towards life. Ravetch and Frank use humor, wit and most of all, respect in their screenplay...
...Catholic educational system has traditionally trained assertive, pioneering women and so has laid the groundwork for acceptance of modern feminist thought, Harriet K. Switzer, former president of Maryville College said yesterday in a discussion on women in Catholic education at the Radcliffe Forum...
Women in Catholic Education--Harriet Switzer, president of Maryville College, Agassiz House...
Directed by Martin Ritt Screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank...
Little Bruce, meanwhile, had been released from prison when he threatened to stop providing evidence against his father if authorities kept him from Robin. Bruce Sr. made three trips to Harriet Steffy's house looking for Bruce and Robin. "He told me that he didn't want to hurt them," Mrs. Steffy recounted. "He said he would give $12,000 to Little Bruce if he told the police he had been on dope when he testified and that it wasn't true that his daddy led that gang. But I told him that I didn' think...