Word: role
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Broadway PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN is part documentary chronicle, part dear-diary journal and part dusty political imbroglios, but mostly a record of a woman who also happened to be Queen Victoria. Dorothy Tutin wears the role like a tiara, moving from the spoiled child of power to the yielding, sensuous wife to the desolate widow with the fatigue of existence in her voice...
Last week stocky, square-jawed-and somewhat square-Fred Harris, at 37 the second youngest U.S. Senator (after Ted Kennedy), achieved national prominence as a result of his influential role within the President's Commission on Civil Disorders. Said a commission staffer: "He was a conscience to all of us and a prod to crystallizing a unifying view." That view, reflected in the commission's report, is not universally applauded-as Harris foresaw. To those who were queasy about castigating racism in American society, Harris snapped: "It strikes me that no one in this country is poor because...
Banishing the Censors. Dubček is swiftly putting into action a program that his supporters promise will shrink the role of the Communist Party and bring a semblance of democracy to Czechoslovak public life. Among the reforms currently being debated in the party Presidium is one that would make the Czechoslovak National Assembly a representative body rather than a party rubber stamp. Dubček, who has heavy backing among white-collar workers and young technicians, is also expected to further free the economy from bureaucratic controls...
More important, there is growing discontent among the officers of Nasser's army, who understandably resent their role as scapegoats for Israel's victory in June. As long as Nasser could count on the unquestioned admiration of his worshipful populace, no military leader dared lift a finger against him. But the admiration is now in question, the populace is no longer entirely worshipful, and the possibility of a military coup can no longer be dismissed. The fact that there is no visible movement of anti-Nasser officers means little, as Nasser himself well knows. Who, after...
...makes even the possession of terrorist weapons a capital offense, the number of Africans awaiting execution in Rhodesia has risen to 115 since se cession (v. only twelve before). Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime, unsure of its authority and fearful of casting itself in the role of judicial murderer, had refrained from carrying out the sentences. Then, two weeks ago, Rhodesia's high court ruled that the noose could be used, since the Smith regime was a de facto government. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government thereupon asked the Queen to intercede...