Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). "Big Sur,"Frank Gagliano's original fable, tells the tale of a middle-aged Midwesterner's drive to California. The role is played by Gene Troobnick; James Coco, Billy Dee Williams and Kate Harrington are some of the characters he meets along...
...Role to Play-Sir: I do not know on-what basis you reach the conclusion in your essay "The Future of Black Leadership" [April 4] that "Roy Wilkins, despite the 450,000 membership of the N.A.A.C.P., has lost more ground than any other leader, with the decline of integration as the principal issue and the loss of the N.A.A.C.P.'s traditional adversary role...
...vital issue despite the loud and widely publicized demands of the black neo-segregationists. It is noteworthy that Southern black folk who have suffered most from the chains of Jim Crow have been most consistent in pressing for acceleration of desegregation. Meanwhile, the N.A.A.C.P. continues its "traditional adversary role," aided now in many areas by the Federal Government, thanks to new legislation largely instigated and vigorously and persistently lobbied for by the N.A.A.C.P...
...long ago that there was much talk about converting NATO from its original military purposes into an instrument of diplomacy and cultural exchange to further détente in Europe. The change of roles reflected almost unanimous conviction in Western Europe that the threat of a Soviet attack had diminished to the point of nonexistence. In the long run, NATO's final mission remains one of negotiation and settlement. But in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the plans for demilitarizing NATO have been temporarily shelved. Reflecting the concerns of their countries, the European ministers felt that...
...extent that two of the three functions of this body are of explicitly advisory nature. The information channels of the University should be as representative as possible. The ten Faculty members and five students who will make up this special committee may well prove helpful in its role as an investigating committee to "study the causes of the present crisis" and in "recommending changes in the governance of the University...