Word: ranson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actors rush into the play at a disturbingly frenetic rate. But they manage to slow down, with the lead of the earthy, almost scandalously irreverent Dorine (Marcelle Ranson). Miss Ranson along with the easily swayed, emotionally extravagant and insecure Orgon (Gaston Vacchia) and the very slimy Tartuffe (Yves Gasc) give their roles a credibility and life the others lack. But it is true that Moliere has left somewhat flatter other characters: the attractive Elmire (Janine Souchon), the ingenue Marianne (Francine Walter), her brother Damis (Luc Ponette), her fiancee Valere (Pierre Cpustere), and Elmire's brother, Cleante (Michael Favory...
...seminary as well as Drew's secular departments. Annoyed at their loss of control over budgets and policy, the seminary professors were furious when Oxnam vetoed a proposed faculty appointment on the ground that the salary offered the man was too high. Seminary Dean Charles W. Ranson then signed a confidential letter of complaint to the trustees-an action that Oxnam used as an excuse for firing him. Although Oxnam was backed by the trustees and by a special investigative committee appointed by the Methodist Church, the seminary remained unrepentant. Divinity students undertook a series of protest demonstrations...
RUTH GOTTHARDT RANSON...
Threats to De Gaulle will not work the trick, unless he undergoes a major psychological metamorphosis. Whatever he wants, whatever ranson he demands for the British hostage, he will have to get. And if the price is an independent deterrent, Washington--insults or no insults--will...