Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interspersed between Edwards' adventures lie general comments about the role of women in politics. Women, she finds, are more honest than their male counterparts who in general enter politics for money and status rather than to fight for causes. Edwards, hardly a modest sort, quotes Eleanor Roosevelt quoting her in the former First Lady's Ladies of Courage: "If I didn't have the crusading spirit I'd get the hell out and go home...
Chicago Symphony Conductor Sir Georg Solti slipped as he stepped out of an elevator, and his assistant fell into a heroine's role. With Solti bedridden after straining a ligament in his back, Symphony Chorus Director Margaret Hillis, 56, was tapped as a last-minute stand-in to conduct a Manhattan performance of Mahler's difficult Eighth Symphony. Hillis spent an hour with the ailing maestro going over the score, listened to a radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall...
Among those who get just a piece of a piece of a piece of the show, Arnold Soboloff is wry-crisp in the role of a gay com poser and Barry Nelson never throws away a line, even the scrimpiest, that he hasn't impeccably polished. But the play goers are paying to see Liza, and at a rec ord Broadway top price of $25. Someone is gambling mightily that their love will not prove fickle...
...cliched to say so, but Harvard gained the victory over the Bulldogs through a team effort. In the opening stanza goalie Irene Kacandes, and the fullbacks and halfbacks in front of her played the key role, repeatedly thwarting the Elis attempt to score. In the second half, the forwards took control, netting the second Crimson goal, then utilizing the best form of defense, offense to keep Yale scoreless...
...speaker to put all or part of his remarks off the record may be firmly and blandly ignored as an absurdity. In a large gathering--say 20 persons or more--but sponsored by a private organization, club, committee or the like, where the reporter is present in his role as a reporter but also as an invited guest, he must protest vigorously any attempt by a speaker to go off the record. He should point out that the meeting was scheduled as open to the press, that any attempt at secrecy with a group that large is manifestly meaningless, ineffective...