Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forced to acknowledge Johnson's fairness and integrity. Johnson, 58, has probably handed down more important and innovative rulings than any trial judge in U.S. history. Almost immediately after his appointment to the federal bench in 1955, he began issuing orders that broke down segregation in Dixie. His role as point man for social change brought him and his family ostracism, vituperation, cross burnings and death threats. With Johnson obviously in mind, Alabama Governor George Wallace last year groused that "thugs and federal judge have just about taken charge of this country" and suggested a "political barbed-wire enema...
...performers included Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Milton Berle and Mae West. A hit-and-miss Broadway producer, Walters went bankrupt in 1966 when his deals started to sour. In his glory days, his celebrity circle surrounded Daughter Barbara, who was never awed by stars in her later-life role of interviewer...
...version absolves the Sanhedrin and the Jewish crowds of their traditional role as villains and assigns it to the loutish Roman soldiers. The main instigator of the Crucifixion, however, turns out to be Lucifer. The Evil One mingles with the Jewish street crowds and accompanies Judas on his mission of betrayal. In one of the few lines with a parallel in both versions, Judas now says, "Oh what cursed gold I received, turning me into a traitor." The 19th century text goes, "Oh cursed money I received from you, the Jewish rot, the scum." Schwaighofer has also added other...
...lecture delivered at Columbia University more than a decade ago, David Brinkley proposed doing away entirely with "the role of the all-wise, all-informed, all-knowing journalistic supermen." Brinkley objected to the way "the whole apparatus of press agentry and promotion is put to work ... promoting stars along with promoting news, to the point where it is not clear which is which." The only solution, Brinkley argued, was to "report the news the way newspapers report it," with many reporters spending the day developing stories, "then having them, all of them, report on the ah" whatever they have learned...
...only on stand-by reserve when they read the evening news. It is on other occasions-in knowledgeable ad-lib coverage of political conventions, space shots, presidential funerals-that they earn their spurs, their reputations, the trust of their viewers. Would Arledge himself be so dismissive of the anchoring role if ABC had Walter Cronkite and was No. 1 in the ratings? Arledge, though he professes to admire Reasoner's whimsical essays and Walters' interviews, is convinced that ABC'S broadcasts are too slow-paced. "Cronkite," he says admiringly, "has that laid-back appearance...