Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME BUCK WHITE. Dick Williams is more a bore than a bombshell as he delivers a sermon at a Black Power meeting. But the three years that the cast has worked together pays off in an excellent comic ensemble...
...FIXER. "I'm the kind of man who finds it perilous just to be alive," says the reluctant hero of this grueling and often moving adaptation of Bernard Malamud's novel. Under the meticulous direction of John Frankenheimer, the cast performs with a power that gives the film an almost Dostoevskian force...
...formal transfer of power to a new President of the U.S. is always a solemn moment. It is also a moment of promise, a time for hopeful pledges rather than penitential litanies. Columbia Historian Henry Graff calls the act of transition "America's stirring rite of political renewal." The mood of Inauguration 1969 is neither the bleak desperation of 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt succeeded Herbert Hoover amid the Great Depression, nor the partisan exhilaration of 1965, after Lyndon Johnson had been elected in his own right. The U.S. is in grave crisis, yet the President-elect has revealed little...
...when Nixon last week named Henry Cabot Lodge, his 1960 running mate, to be chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, it seemed to many that the new Administration was at last tipping its hand. Lodge, who twice served as U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, was the instrument of American power in Viet Nam at crucial moments of the war. A number of commentators argued that his selection was a signal that Nixon was committed to a tough policy and that the Communists could hope for few concessions. They recalled Lodge's close association with South Viet Nam's impetuous Vice...
...senior tutor said last night that it seemed the Faculty still has the power to decide about scholarships if they choose to do so. "This summer, the Faculty Committee on Financial Aid limited the total possible reduction in scholarships as a result of probation to $500 a year per student," he said. "Most reductions in scholarships are converted to loans," he added...