Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin America's discontents, and those discontents are taking ever more tangible and visible forms. Most of the Latin countries are unhappy with the U.S., as Nelson Rockefeller's three fact-finding missions for President Nixon have graphically demonstrated. Either the U.S. plays too large a role in their economies -or it does not do enough in terms of aid and favorable trade. Rockefeller's trips have provided a focus for protest. Many Latin American nations are also unhappy with themselves and in search of new paths to progress. That combination of frustration, militancy and venturesomeness last...
...Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln-The War Years lies amid a clutter of radio equipment and six telephones. A devout Methodist in a largely Moslem and animist nation, a member of an insignificant tribe in a federation of tribal giants, Gowon clearly sees himself in the Lincolnesque role of healer of his nation's divisions. TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath recently talked with the general. The subjects discussed and Gowon's replies...
...screen. At first, he proved better at transferring than at creating. His early experiment, The Left-Handed Gun, starring a self-conscious Paul Newman as Billy the Kid, paid heavy homage to the Actors Studio. Mickey One was a sedulously Francophilic film with Warren Beatty in the unlikely role of Everyman. But both movies displayed a moral force and a growing understanding of the possibilities of film. With Bonnie and Clyde, Penn abruptly became an internationally recognized film maker. In his newest film, Alice's Restaurant, Penn gives visual substance to Mocking-Bard Arlo Guthrie's instant...
...right away that Rooster Cogburn was a character that fit my pistol," he said. "He even felt the same way about life. He did not believe in pampering wrongdoers." Eventually, Producer Hal Wallis outbid Wayne-but Wallis provided an appropriately happy ending by hiring the superstar to play the role...
When China Altman and George Blakely Rogers married recently in Boston, they accepted the offer of an old friend to be their "paraclete," or special adviser and supporter of their union. Half a dozen lines were written into the Unitarian ceremony, formally requesting the friend to accept his uncommon role. "Many young people no longer look to their parents for assistance and advice," explains China. "To do so is often too emotionally complicated. We look instead to our best friends. To have a friend promise to be the paraclete of your marriage makes all kinds of sense...