Word: kent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year old Buddy O'Neil immediately reminds fans of comic-book hero Clark Kent. Mild-mannered and unassuming, the bespectacled mentor has the "patience of a saint," according to one player. When the subject of his career comes up, O'Neil blushes and suggests that the conversation move onto a discussion of the players...
...Downward mobility" seldom occurs voluntarily now nationwide. A "subliminal panic" shot through the middle classes after Kent State, and again when thermostats dropped and gas lines formed in the early morning darkness; today many students are unapologetically out for themselves alone. Especially telling are the rise of guru- and pseudo-liberation fads in the wake of the earlier protest's defeat, and of "decadence" at schools like Yale, where leaves of absence are at an all-time low; they signal most vividly a spiralling-off of individuals into private worlds within a corporate universe...
Directed by JOSEPH ZITO Screenplay by KENT E. CARROLL
...four women, Robin Lothrop from Dunster House, along with Dorothy Kent, Janet Campbell, and Carlyle Singer, all from Winthrop House, came in 2 1/2 minutes ahead of the rest of the field...
...this be the peace-loving Billy Jack, the tousled loner of Laughlin's 1971 cult hit of the same name? Can this be the hero of The Trial of Billy Jack (1974), who mused on the tragedies of My Lai and Kent State? It can. To Laughlin, the private fury and the public saint are a smooth amalgam of aesthetics and justice. "The youth of this country have only two heroes," he claims modestly, "Ralph Nader and Billy Jack." Laughlin says to friends, "Billy Jack will institute political change...