Word: neil
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Reported by Douglas Brew and Neil MacNeil/ Washington
Unfortunately, these politicians sometimes disregard the rights of their supporters--failing to inform them of their positions on the issues. As the November 2nd election approaches. Tip O'Neil continues to refuse to debate his opponent. Frank McNamara. As a concerned voter, I want to exercise my right to hear each candidate's position on the issues...
Many Massachusetts voters have been well trained to vote for Tip O'Neil year after year without re-examining his stand on the issues or his voting record. Yet, in this time of economic and political instability, it is important to re-evaluate what Tip O'Neill really stands for. In a district where voter registration is 8-to-1 Democratic, surely Tip has nothing to fear from newcomer Frank McNamara '69. Why, then, is an experienced 69-year-old politician who has debated the President on national television afraid to debate a 34-year-old Boston lawyer...
College officials tend to blame student shortcomings on the high schools, which undeniably need reform and renewal, but the high schools can blame the elementary schools, the elementary schools the family at home, and everybody blames TV. Wisconsin's President Robert O'Neil, however, argues that the colleges are "in part to blame." Says he: "Having diluted the requirements and expectations, they indicated that students could succeed in college with less rigorous preparation." Mark H. Curtis, president of the Association of American Colleges, is more caustic: "We might begin to define the educated person...
...Blithe Spirit; Katharine Cornell exhumed The Barretts of Wimpole Street. But in a decade when just about every new Broadway hit was sold to the movies, producers had little interest in "settling" for TV's small money, tiny screen and no prestige. Today, few Broadway plays except Neil Simon's make it to Hollywood. Naturalistic drama of the sort that translates easily to movies is out of fashion among the younger playwrights, and the teen-agers who constitute the core movie audience would be bored by all talk and no action. So theater is searching...