Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most of all, this memorandum will challenge the Harvard Faculty to take a bold position in support of an unpopular but totally logical and just issue now confronting the academic community, nationwide. It will call upon Harvard to demonstrate positively its traditional role of national leadership." Dept. of the Army, Memorandum...
...perfect right to say that, but let's realize the context in which they are putting the present debate over ROTC. To take a position of either maintaining ROTC courses at Harvard or upgrading them is to take a position for training professional officers at a University, for the role which such officers will play in the U.S. Army, and for, consequently, the role which the U.S. military is presently engaged in. It is hardly an issue of "University neutrality...
...have helped pave the way for the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Rapacki's recent position was weakened not only by refusing to go along with the campaign against Jews, which other leaders, including Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka, joined only reluctantly, but also by opposing Poland's role in the Czechoslovak invasion...
...Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and is famed as an actress for her performance of Greek and Shakespearean drama. Now 70 and living in Southern California, Dame Judith Anderson has decided to take a fling at a slightly different role. In A Man Called Horse, she plays a Sioux squaw-even speaks her lines in the Indian language. The film stars Richard Harris as a British nobleman who is captured by the Sioux and given to Dame Judith as a beast of burden. "I shouldn't call it a Western," she explained. "Dramatically...
...long been under the shadow of its wealthier cousins, the Paris Rothschilds, and of more imaginative British merchant bankers. Now the firm is catching up, as Rothschilds always seem to do. Edmund de Rothschild, 52, remains the senior partner, but the man who is taking an increasingly vocal role is his first cousin, Evelyn de Rothschild, 37. Unlike Edmund, who is active in a largely ceremonial way, Evelyn is pursuing a more aggressive family stewardship. "We aren't just a myth," he insists...