Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ahmanson had a brief fling at politics when he managed Republican Goodwin Knight's successful campaign for Governor of California...
...carious screen version. It has been brought crunchingly down to earth by the churlish touch of Director Joshua Logan. To be sure, the film is a re-creation of the triangled plot involving King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guenevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero), the interloper-knight who gives his rivals at the Round Table their joust desserts, thereby arousing the lady's passions. The King ignores their affair until the appearance of his bastard son Mordred (David Hemmings), who sunders the kingdom with slander and rumor. A war between Arthur and Lancelot begins, Guenevere flees...
...work and the demands of personal and professional survival, he labors not to change a world or any corner of it, but to preserve something of his own integrity and decency. Lew Archer is a natural successor to Hammett's jaded Continental Op and Chandler's cynical knight-errant, Philip Marlowe, but his problems and solutions are far closer to us and the business of living...
There was little reason for surprise that Cousins had backed the obstreperous young priest whom Negroes call "Ajax, the White Knight." Ever since Groppi launched his campaign to "turn Milwaukee upside down," Cousins, who has been Archbishop of Milwaukee since 1958, has supported his right to do so. Describing Groppi as "a little immature" but "honest, dedicated and sincere," the archbishop in 1965 insisted that priests, as citizens, have every right to engage in politics as their conscience dictates. In recent weeks, however, Cousins has admitted that he has been under strong pressure to discipline Groppi; the chancery office...
Known to the Negroes as "Ajax, the White Knight," Groppi found a valid local cause in the quest for an open-housing ordinance. Mrs. Vel Phillips, 43, a pretty Negro who is Milwaukee's only black alderman, has five times proposed that such a measure be debated by the 19-member common council; each time she was put down by a vote of 18 to 1. Groppi leaped into the issue like an avenging angel. As a result, says U.S. Representative Clem Zablocki, who speaks in Congress for most of Milwaukee's South Side, much of the city...