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...news, whose effects are a different phenomenon altogether-becomes more complicated when it is considered as a medium of persuasion, the little electronic proscenium alive with potentially sinister ideological glints. In years past, American TV has been considered a moderately conservative influence. From the suburban complacencies of Ozzie and Harriet through the vanquishing six-gun authority of Sheriff Matt Dillon, TV entertainment seemed an elaborate gloss on the status...
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...