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...that shows a little black girl exclaiming "It's your birthday! I'm just tickled black." Expressions of pride are a good thing when they are genuine, say black Psychiatrists Alvin Poussaint of Harvard and James Comer of Yale. But, they caution in the current Redbook, rote teaching of black-dignity slogans may foster not pride but self-hatred...
...SURE sign of senescence is a pedantic impulse, and Cromwell carries the belabored aging process of the historical film spectacle one teetering step past the previous low mark set by Anne of the Thousand Days. Whereas Anne at least tapped a romantic vein sure to keep Redbook and Seventeen reviewers cooing, Cromwell develops no gratifying love-or period-interest. Ken Hughes' bland direction and screenplay instead distort history to remove any possible ambiguities from Cromwell's public actions during the English Revolution: he is portrayed from the very beginning of the fray as the prime, the only principled, advocate...
...originally conceived in the mid-1940's- the result of a famous Faculty report on "General Education in a Free Society" known since as "the Redbook". Its purpose, as described by current Gen Ed director Edward T. Wilcox, was to provide "a core curriculum, organized around a central principle of a shared experience with reference to the heritage of Western civilization...
...Wilcox, in a letter to the Committee of Fifteen, calls the Redbook chauvinistic and dated." He said the new role of the Committee on General Education has been to initiate experiments in the curriculum...
During her six-year stay with Sokolsky, Ali also picked up an occasional assignment in front of the camera. Her open face and broad shoulders kept her from high fashion, but she was the suburban stereotype, one of those "young mamas" who reads Redbook and shops at Peck & Peck. She brought to modeling the same qualities that have made her a star: a combination of controlled, countrified chic and hip innocence that types her as that kind of smart, pretty, unapproachable girl who sat in the back row of the sophomore poetry seminar...