Word: role
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Robert Redford, by contrast, glowers like Hud in the role of the Sundance Kid. As a cold-blooded killer, he bears little resemblance to the whining husband of Barefoot in the Park. His moustache droops, for one thing. He grunts, bites bullets, and shoots people (mostly Bolivians) with laughable accuracy. Both Newman and Redford bring sharp comic timing to the title roles, but Sundance is the more remarkable creation. He's chilling and funny at the same time...
Cesar Chavez. organizer of the California grape strike, also spoke at the meeting, after finishing his own speech in Lowell Lecture Hall. Chavez extolled the role of students in this country and said that there was a feeling of solidarity between farm workers and students...
...this conception of university is, I think, manifest. The university is not the political party of the faculty, or any other constituency within the university: it belongs, for better or for worse, to the society at large. And if the university is to continue in its special and delicate role as the center of critical intellectual activity-a role only grudgingly regarded by the rest of American society-the, supporters of the Faculty resolution on the Vietnam war should think again about what they are doing...
...YPSL is very unhappy about the role SMC is playing," Ross said yesterday. "They're trying to substitute their slogans for Moratorium slogans; they've put out leaflets calling for a strike instead of a Moratorium; they're running a poster with Camejo's name listed above McGovern...
...ironic that no one ever thought of it before last week. The very thing that made Champi's performance so unbelievable was the thing that had to debunk his deification. He was a substitute quarterback stepping into a hero's role. The old American success story. But in America heroes don't lose. And Champi knew when he came back to pre-season drills that he couldn't match his clippings. He admitted it. Harvard undergraduates knew it. Yovicsin, his staff, and Champi's teammates knew it. But the Boston papers chose to ignore...