Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Admissions Office sit-in by militant black students. A Harvard man ('38) and Rhodes Scholar himself, Smith was one of the country's youngest college presidents when he assumed office at the small, Quaker-founded liberal arts school. A determinedly academic president, he shunned the role of fund raiser to concentrate on improving the quality of Swarthmore's faculty and curriculum. When 20 black students staged the current sit-in to dramatize their demands for greater black enrollment and a black studies program, the usually imperturbable Smith began to despair. "We have lost something precious here...
...Brotherhood's pervasive nostalgia grants the senior members the best scenes. As Frank's wife, Irene Papas has a rare, abiding femininity that has taken on middle age and won. Luther Adler invests his role with the kind of craft and authority that make for supporting-actor awards. Douglas, fitted out in a push-broom mustache and dyed hair, is the most convincing, perhaps because the role of a prideful, aging bullock who clings to an old persona hits astonishingly close to home...
...others. Alvise's energetic forays in his wheelchair are photographed in a manner heavily reminiscent of Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Like Roman Polanski, Samperi likes to use objects as characters (a necktie, a rifle, a vase), and his consuming interest in role playing and destruction through domination is almost pure Pinter. Unlike Pinter, however, Samperi fails to draw his characters in full proportion. Even if the viewer can accept Alvise's sadistic madness, he can never be sure just what it is in Lea that drives her so insanely to her nephew...
...official communiqués issued after each day's session, which were masterpieces of noncommunication. The paper has not published the full texts of the resolutions on Humanae Vitae adopted by the episcopal conferences of the U.S., Canada, France, Belgium and The Netherlands-all of which cited the role of individual conscience in the question of birth control. Instead, L'Osservatore has published excerpts from the statements praising the encyclical, thus giving the impression that the episcopal conferences were in full agreement with the Pope. Other manifestations of Catholic ferment, such as the theologians' petition for freedom...
Since the president of the institute, 84-year-old Alberto Cardinal di Jorio, plays only a nominal role, Marcinkus is now a key man in Vatican finances...