Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legs and as close to my head as possible." Then along came some Spanish-speaking CIA agents who "called a halt to such shenanigans, summoned a doctor and at first treated me with utmost courtesy." In Washington, the CIA would neither confirm nor deny Debray's story. Whatever role the CIA may have played, Debray's life was probably saved ultimately by the intervention of U.S. Ambassador Douglas Henderson...
...Martin had some harsh words for the Vietnamese. In a two-page piece for his magazine, Martin charged that the Vietnamese troops performed so poorly on their own that they should be completely integrated with U.S. forces. The U.S., he went on, should also take a much more active role in governing South Viet Nam, from channeling all economic aid to ousting corrupt Vietnamese officials. "What right do the Vietnamese have to expect full sovereignty," he asked, "while depending for their very survival on U.S. support...
...brainpower belong to a triumvirate who conceived the project and run the company: Hooks, 30, Negro Playwright Douglas Turner Ward, 38, and Gerald Krone, 34, a white producer with a string of off-Broadway hits. "My thoughts were," says Hooks, "producers will only hire a Negro for that special role. Yet there's no reason why the part of a Philadelphia lawyer can't be played by a Negro if he's a better actor than a white...
...seem alive from the neck up only. St. Joan has not been spared. In a conscientious but lethargic revival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, the play drones on like a college seminar labeled "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism, 1412-1431." In the title role, Diana Sands is earth-bound but never God-intoxicated, more of a common scold than an uncommon saint...
Still another unanswered question is whether the state universities, true to their traditional role as the community's intellectual social utility, can solve the urban problems of the present as well as they did the rural ones of the past. The land-grant colleges created most of the agricultural technology that has made the U.S. the most successful farming nation on earth. Now public universities need to develop new tools, courses, disciplines and methods of research to help the cities. One such special city problem is how to help Negroes and other minority groups fulfill their own rising expectations...