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Word: roles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dean Rosovsky, contains no one from the Radcliffe administration, and the students who have been working with it have not objected to this omission. Radcliffe has no academic structure parallel to Harvard's to ensure its representation on such faculty committees. How, then, is it to fulfill its role as "advocate for women's concerns"? With Harvard's male dominated faculty, there is always a danger that key women's voices will be excluded on admulierem grounds...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: A Hundred Years of Solitude | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

...role Glimp said he has to "get people to see that the enterprise is bigger, more important than the individual party talking about it. A place like Harvard would be very ordinary if it did not have a big endowment. Then the ups and downs of the economy and fads and fashions and politics would have a lot more to do with the direction the enterprise takes...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Glimp, Former Dean, Becomes Alumni Affairs Vice President | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

...this woman truckin'? Model-Turned-Actress Deborah Raffin is revving up fo her role in a March 10 CBS movie, Willa. Raffin, 25, plays a waitress who takes up truck driving after her husband abandons her and the kids. To prepare for the role, she put in 50 hours learning how to drive a 16-wheel, 40,000-lb. rig. "It's so powerful you could almost run down a street light and not know it," says Raffin. "I was petrified." But the fright was worth it, Raffin thinks, because the film shows how well women can cope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1979 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...must be as delectable as strawberries and cream, a muse of delight, Goethe's "eternal feminine" luring men on. Sachs makes her predatory, poised like a pelican about to dive-bomb a poor fish. And Philip Bosco as the Devil displays an unctuous complacency that defeats the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Girl Gets Boy | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...years, Al and Tipper Gore have had more than their share of tense moments with the entertainment industry. The uneasy relationship started with Tipper's crusade in the 1980s against smutty and violent rock lyrics. It has continued through Al's vice presidency, during which he played a key role in negotiating a voluntary TV-ratings system, a law requiring that new televisions be equipped with a V chip to help parents block out offensive programs, and a deal in which broadcasters agreed to provide three hours of educational children's television a week. In a televised forum on school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore and Hollywood: Biting the Hand That Pays? | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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