Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT WHITE HOPE. James Earl Jones, as Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion, roars through the role with jungle magnetism and the pride of a lion. Otherwise the semidocumentary succeeds only in easing the conscience without facing the tragedy of its story...
...press played a peculiar role in encouraging this self-indulgence. It obviously considered itself unsullied by what one Harvard scholar called "the circus" in Whig Hall. And it broke into vigorous applause when Sam Brown delivered his blistering attack on the fourth day of the conference. Still, why the press was there at all was a mystery to most of the participants, and by its elaborate coverage--there were probably as many reporters as participants and the cameramen were ubiquitous--the news media admitted implicitly the importance of the people whom it ridiculed in daily copy. Most of their stories...
...longer be ignored in conceptualizations of personality development. Indeed, most youngsters probably have more exposure to prestigeful televised male models than to their own fathers. With further advances in mass media and audiovisual technology, models presented pictorially, mainly through television, are likely to play an increasingly influential role in shaping personality patterns and in modifying attitudes and social norms...
...influential role of modeling processes in personality development is further revealed by studies demonstrating that children adopt, through observation of behavior exemplified by adults and peers, relatively complex attributes including standards of achievement and self-evaluation, patterns of emotional responsivity, syntatic styles, moral judgmental orientations, and patterns of self-gratification...
...decision to use the other half of the $30 million for grandiose building projects suggests that the college only half-realizes the urgency of clamping down on the rising cost of a Radcliffe education. Moreover, the building plans are based on anachronistic evaluations of Radcliffe's role and the desires of its students. The new $7 million Currier House will relieve over-crowding in other dorms, but allowing more students to live off-campus would do the same thing. And the plans for coffee shops and renovated dorms show the same nostalgic attachment to the concept of small-college community...