Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...analysis is a little glib. Harvard was able to support the United States armed forces eagerly during World War II, and the same might well be true of a future military commitment--in the Middle East or Berlin, for example. There is nothing wrong with the proposition that the role of the military in foreign policy decisions should be curbed, but to pretend that the army is something the country can do without is a ludicrous fiction...
...squashed jokes behind it (as the more-tasteless-than-ever Audio Lab ad on the back cover graphically shows, there are times when an appeal to animal emotions gets nauseating). But there does seem to be an inherent confusion of purpose in the Lampoon's approach to its role as "humor magazine." In most of this month's pieces, clever Poonies work from the assumption that if they imitate any kind of over-used literary genre, the result will be funny. Often...
Died. Francis Taylor, 70, wealthy Beverly Hills art dealer who started his only daughter, Elizabeth, in pictures in 1943 by wangling her the role opposite Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home; in his sleep, apparently of a stroke; in his home in Bel Air, Calif...
...McKern as a jealous one-do not look embarrassed by their clerical robes. As Father Telemond, Werner appears uncommonly youthful for his 46 years; he seems fresher in each new movie, as if, like Merlin in The Once and Future King, he were living his life backwards. His role, unfortunately, requires him to do some pseudo-lofty philosophizing that sounds very much like a parody of Teilhard de Chardin-as it did in West's novel...
...someone on a Chelsea sidewalk. Her fellow players seem equally and effectively plucked from real life. The best of them is Donald Sutherland, as a frail, talentless aristocrat, whose tentative worship of the Beautiful People is so well portrayed that it turns a bit part into a leading role...