Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...originally conceived, General Education was an attempt to give the student a general but still comprehensive intellectual background. Unfortunately, the system soon began to falter; as the number of Gen Ed courses multiplied, their relationship to the general, introductory goals of the program became more dubious. In recent years such courses as "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" found their way into the Gen Ed listings -- while of undoubted intellectual merit (at least usually), they didn't quite seem designed to produce a class of Renaissance men and women. Moreover, certain other courses sprang up that appeared designed to accomodate...
...sassy, overweight Jewish woman who is luckless with men and still struggling in her career as a photographer. Her roommate Anne Munroe (Anita Skinner) is an even more familiar type-a svelte, high-strung Wasp with ambitions to write poetry. When Anne leaves the nest to get married, her relationship with Susan starts to deteriorate. Since we never understood why they were close friends in the first place, it is impossible to care about the seemingly arbitrary squabbles that follow...
They feed lines to each other with the smooth telepathy of an old married couple, but in fact their only relationship is professional. He grew up in Philadelphia and wanted to be a song-and-dance man; she was raised in a suburb of Chicago and wanted to sing in cabarets. When they met at the Proposition in Cambridge, however, they knew they had something else going. "We thought, 'Wouldn't we be great onstage?' " says Suzanne. " 'We make each other laugh so.' " They started working "semisteadily," as they put it, two years...
...introduced to a few gentlemen related to the material. They were flattering. They refused to believe that I had never been in the rackets. They refused to believe that I had never had the confidence of a don." But Puzo did have a godfather's understanding of the relationship between power and luck. "A lot of it has to do with luck," he muses in a precis of his life. "Luck and strength go together. When you get lucky, you have to have the strength to follow through. You also have to have the strength to wait for the luck...
...should take seriously our spiritual relationship with the Jews, activate that which we share in common with Islam, and pursue the dialogue with the other religions...