Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incredible and unpredictable Sly and The Family Stone, recent chartbusters and winners of a Gold Record for their single "Everyday People," are embarking on a personal appearance tour, and, in their role as one of the top American groups on the scene today, will be headlining the leading American pop music festivals...
...former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and now a fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, will lecture on "The Individual and the Society." The lectures will cover many of the city-conflict problems studied by the Urban Coalition as well as the role of demonstrations on and off campus...
...brownstone on a case), relish for properly chilled beer (12 bottles a day), reliance on significant small gestures ( a tiny circle traced on a desk top with one finger indicates speechless fury). Wolfe's associates are brightly sketched, notably his slangy, hard-boiled legman Archie Goodwin, whose active role in and narration of Wolfe's Holmesian episodes ties them also to the U.S. tough-guy school of Hammett and Chandler. Even such quirks as Wolfe's penchant for recondite words like "gibbosity" and "usufructs" and for scrupulous vocabularies of all kinds are minutely documented...
...that the Ex could be made to look even more cramped and confining than it actually is. Some of their actors do some notable work. André Bishop is genuinely and broadly amusing as the Duke of York, while Robert Edgar almost manager to suggest substantial complexity in the role of Charles II. He manages a nice twist on the King's foppish manner, turning it on for public scenes and off in more private moments. As Monmouth himself, Timothy Clark works hard and reads intelligently (when he is given intelligent lines to read), but is unable to convey either...
Wilson spoke informally last night at a meeting at the Graduate School of Education. The meeting was called to discuss the School's role in the implementation of the Dunlop and Wilson Reports. Wilson cited the meager attendance--26 people--as illustrating the University community's apathy to the program suggested in the Wilson Report...