Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moderates and conservatives over a cluster of issues involving among other matters, literal biblical interpretations. Last week four members of the church's 18-man mission-board staff resigned, partly in protest against "the oppressive use of power" in the denomination's hierarchy, headed by conservative President Jacob A.O. Preus. Two weeks ago, the staffs director, William H. Kohn, quit, and two more members will resign when they return from trips overseas. The departures from the staff, which administers all church mission activity at home and abroad, follow the spectacular split between the church's Concordia Seminary...
Last December, Walter Stoessel, 54, formerly Ambassador to Warsaw, was named Ambassador to Moscow. Secretary Kissinger is not permitted to do to Stoessel what Presidential Adviser Kissinger did to Stoessel's predecessor, Jacob Beam: in 1972, while he was negotiating detente with the Kremlin, Kissinger sneaked into Moscow without even telling Beam that he was coming...
Weinberger did not discuss two alternative health care programs, one proposed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), the other by Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.) and Sen. Russell B. Long...
Based very loosely on Dostoevsky's short novel, The Double, Partner tries to examine the life of a young drama teacher named Jacob (Pierre Clementi) and his alter ego (also named Jacob, also played by Clementi) whom he meets in an outdoor public urinal after he tries to kill himself. After a while, the first Jacob begins to feel that the second Jacob is taking over his life. Jacob I plots the murder of Jacob II, building an odd sort of guillotine in a small room papered over with Vietnam Liberation posters. He changes his mind about the murder...
During a very few moments of the film, however, Bertolucci's visual style sparkles sufficiently to overshadow the shallowness of the film as a whole. A few shots of books stacked in mounds in Jacob I's room are satisfying in terms of the parallel they make with the Roman ruins outside. The landlord Petrushka (Sergio Tofano) who wants to be treated like a servant, is a fascinating minor character. These are the sort of minor elements with which Bertolucci built his better films, but in Partner they come to no avail...