Word: passional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlton Heston found out in NBC's adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen. Though it is essentially a two-character play, Dame Judith as the queen hissing "Go to Ireland-go to hell" made it a one-woman show. Torn between pride for country and passion for the Earl of Essex (Heston), she played the tug of war with exquisite skill, slowly losing grip and, in the end, turning into a living mummy. Heston, unfortunately, seemed slightly embalmed to begin with...
...whether their charges are valid. The RUS should also try to decide a set of fiscal priorities--for instance whether the relatively expensive athletics program should continue to be subsidized by all students, even though a relatively small percentage participate in it. Few other Radcliffe issues have aroused such passion as the housing debate. The hunger strike required to make student opinion clear to Administration and Council still is monument to the lack of communication between the two parts of the College...
...form to broaden his attack on the Johnson Administration. Unimpressed, Stanford University's pro-McCarthy newspaper welcomed his campus visit with the disenchanted demand: "Does Eugene McCarthy want to make righteous speeches or does he want to end the Viet Nam war?" Un less Senator McCarthy's "passion gap" could be overcome, conceded his staff, the Minnesota Senator's name as a presidential aspirant seemed destined to be writ in water...
...recalls, "and the French poilu still wore red trousers." The book opened up a brave new world of dashing soldiers, and over the years she has amassed the nation's out standing private collection of lore on military panoply. For both collectors, the fruits of their passion last week rated a salute from the museum world...
Died. Joseph Hudnut, 81, articulate architect and longtime (1935-53) dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design; of pneumonia; in Norwood, Mass. An uninhibited critic, Hudnut dismissed the Jefferson Memorial as "an egg on a pantry shelf in the midst of a geometric Sahara." His passion was for the functional line of modern architecture, a style he popularized by bringing to the U.S. such Bauhaus architects as Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, whom he installed as chairman of his school's architectural department...