Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writes Tiger, "widened the gap between the behavior of males and females. Not only were there organic changes in perception, brain size, posture, hand formation, and locomotion, but there were also social structural changes." Limited by her procreative and maternal responsibilities, woman became shaped evolutionally to play a passive role. Man, the muscular and footloose pursuer of game, evolved in a far more self-assertive direction...
...Barbara Bain accepted her third Emmy for her role as the ladylike spy in the Mission: Impossible series. Then she took an unladylike poke at CBS and the series' production company, noting that "there are a couple of people I'd like not to thank. Since they know who they are, I won't name them." Reason for her ire: she has dropped out of the series in sympathy with her co-star and husband Martin Landau, and his reported demands for a pay hike...
...Adams won his third Emmy as Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for his role as the bumbling spy in NBC's Get Smart. The show itself received an award for the Outstanding Comedy Series. The twist: NBC has dropped Get Smart horn next season's lineup. Yet another twist: CBS picked it up, and will continue it in the fall...
...Hope Lange was named Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, another series dropped by NBC. This one was rescued by ABC for next fall...
...Emmy for producing Teacher, Teacher, NBC's touching drama about a mentally retarded child. He then turned and roundly scored the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for slighting 14-year-old Billy Shulman, the retarded youngster who had been nominated as Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role for his part on the show. The Academy had dropped the category altogether, instead gave Billy a special plaque. > The Dick Cavett Show, dropped by ABC from its morning listings because of low ratings (see following story), was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Daytime Programming Achievement...