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...does the royal family. The public dalliance of Princess Margaret, 47, with Roderick ("Roddy") Llewellyn, 30, a sometime landscape gardener and would-be pop singer, has been a deep embarrassment. The Queen's headstrong sister? permanently embittered, friends feel, by the royal orders that ended her romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend in 1955?raised a furor two years ago with her official sep aration from her husband Lord Snowdon. Last month criticism flared again after a flood of publicity about Margaret and Roddy at their favorite retreat, the Caribbean island of Mustique. The royal family...
...UNIVERSITY has gone ahead with construction of its Medical Area power project over many objections, assuming that it would routinely obtain the necessary approvals from various government agencies. But the University's headstrong rush to build may now cost it heavily, at a time when rising fees are of concern to all students...
Businessmen, of course, do not judge Carter solely on economic issues; like other citizens, they are still trying to make sense of the President's personality. Many have concluded that Carter is a headstrong man who cannot believe he is ever wrong. Says Matz of John Hancock: "I think that it has become clear that he brings to the job his own values as a Georgia-born and -bred peanut farmer and he does not have much use for other people's values. He operates less on consensus than other Presidents have...
Redgrave is on the screen less frequently than Fonda but her appearances are memorable. She sensitively captures Julia's evolution from a headstrong stylish socialist to a committed antifascist who sacrifices her life not on impulse but after careful consideration. Hellman's character is relatively more static, and when she risks her life by smuggling funds for Julia's group into Germany-- Hellman is Jewish--we are never sure whether she is acting out of political commitment, love for Julia, or simply because she was afraid to display cowardice by refusing her friend's plea. In fact, if the details...
Duchess of Omnium. Along the way, their lives intertwine with-among a hundred or so others-a headstrong early feminist, Alice Vavasor, and her rascally cousin George; a young radical M.P. from Ireland, Phineas Finn; and a mistreated wife, Lady Laura Kennedy, who flees from her cruel husband, a rich Scottish baron...