Word: morley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford talked with a level candor on CBS-TV's 60 Minutes. A strong advocate of equal rights for women, she repeated her beliefs about abortion-the Supreme Court's decision legalizing it, she said, was "a great, great decision." When Correspondent Morley Safer asked her about marijuana, Mrs. Ford said that she assumed her four children had sampled it and that she probably would have tried it herself when she was young: "It's the type of thing that the young people have to experience, like your first beer or your first cigarette...
Maryse Carlin; harpsichord music of Morley, Farnaby, Bach, Couperin, and Scarlatti; Eliot House Library; 8:30 p.m.; free...
...splendid Lady Churchill," he said, adding generously, "Had we a greatly corrupted great man like Churchill, I would come back and live in Britain, pay taxes and if necessary, sweep the streets." ∎ "These days nobody expects Miss World to be a blue-eyed virgin," said Julia Morley of the British organization, Mecca Ltd., that runs the annual contest. She should know. Last year's Miss World, Marjorie Wallace of Indiana, was dethroned by Mecca after 14 weeks because her busy love life was grabbing the headlines. This year the judges went out of their way to avoid looking...
Major Barbara is one of Shaw's best plays--about a Salvation Army major who discovers that as long as everything else gets its value in a market economy, salvation will too. The major's father is such a powerful character (remember Robert Morley in the movie?) that he runs away with Shaw's message a couple of times, and there are also a few great setpieces, notably the almost-conversion of Bill Walker. As a curtain-raiser, there's Icarus' Mother, by Sam Shepard who's a more or less experimental playwright, and the director is Robert Chapman, professor...
...Actor Robert Morley, British Airways' exuberant television salesman of England's illimitable charms ("We'll take good care of you"), wryly advised his countrymen to enjoy the shortened work week while it lasts. "For years now, the planners have been assuring us that before long a man would not be required to work more than two or three days a week," Morley wrote in a letter to the London Times. "Now that this blissful state of affairs has arrived, no one seems to relish the fact. Everyone sits around working out on used envelopes how much less...