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Word: overseerers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Last Supper. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, the Cuban director whose Memories of Underdevelopment was popular in this country, directed this 1976 tale of a slaveowner overcome with "religious humility" who invites 12 black slaves to dinner on Holy Thursday, and casts himself in the role of Christ. Critics have labeled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fonda in Shadow | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

A controversy over the nomination of candidates for the board arose last November, when one Overseer alleged that the AHA had attempted to "rig" the elections by nominating an unusually large percentage of members of the financial community.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Elects New Overseers | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

President Bok let himself in for the wrath of tree lovers the world over when he okayed the use of Dumbarton Oaks, the plush Harvard-owned estate outside Washington, for a wedding reception for Rep. John Brademas '49 (D-Ind.), the House majority whip. Despite the fact that large garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What the heck, they're only trees | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

But now that the disaster has receded, quite a few of the hardy Rhode Islanders are having second thoughts about taking handouts from Uncle Sam. Some 250 people who received written authorization have either returned the document or refunded the value of the stamps they used. Says Thomas Marcello, an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: To Have or Have Not | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Here we have George Jefferson: entrepreneur, black bigot, a splenetic little whip of a man who bullies like a demented overseer, seldom speaks below a shriek and worships at the church of ostentation. Would you like to live next door to The Jeffersons? Or consider the character J.J. on TV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Blacks on TV: A Disturbing Image | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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