Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notion that fun and literacy can coexist is a proposition that U.S. theater audiences generally seem to view with unveiled skepticism. Many Americans regard a cultural evening as a therapeutic penance roughly comparable to a dose of cod-liver oil. All such gentry will be dazzled, enlightened and elated by Nicol Williamson's Late Show. Williamson looks like a kind of carbonated El Greco. He has a taut elongated body and funereal brows-yet an effervescent mirth, irony, mischief and intelligence emanate from every tone and gesture of this remarkable actor. In a limited engagement, after each evening...
Leonard said that although the present policy could be "construed" to be discriminatory against women, he does not know exactly what HEW "wants" with regard to a nepotism policy. But he speculated that "what they want is no policy at all." which he said would "open up possibilities for abuse...
...more probable that John Mitchell, for one, told Nixon about the wiretapping plans in advance, or if not that, certainly about what had happened immediately after the Nixon committee was linked to the arrested men at the Watergate, and that Mitchell resigned. Yet Mitchell has too high a regard for the President to admit this, if true, and in this experienced politician's judgment, Haldeman is too tough and loyal to change his testimony. Ehrlichman, in this view, is the weakest of the trio...
...Juan Carlos at Zarzuela Palace and submit the list of new ministers. Predictably, there were no princely objections. The prince may now attend Cabinet meetings, another new prerogative. (In the past, he was briefed on discussions.) Most Spaniards who want change pin their hopes on the prince, whom they regard as being more liberal than Franco or Carrero Blanco. For the time being, however, Juan Carlos was simply faced with another wait. Was he bored? "The prince is very shrewd, very cool, very cautious," says a longtime friend. "Twenty years of eating thorns for breakfast makes a man very tough...
...Borana in Kenya and Ethiopia, for instance, regard eclipses as an evil omen. Even if nothing untoward happens after the event, they may use it as an excuse to kick out any unpopular ritual leaders, called Kallu...