Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college's role in society has changed radically since the '20s, of course. Now, as Trilling points out, the educational system is perceived as a mechanism for "making restitution to the minorities for the deprivations and injustices they suffered in the evolution of the American middle class," rather than the stronghold of that upper class it served as in the '20s. As Aldrich pointed out in Harper's last Harvard overview, Harvard and Radcliffe now serve as steps to middle class status, rather than as the stomping grounds for those who already hold it. Nevertheless, Trilling argues convincingly that...
...poor and their wish for a fundamental social renovation will all too soon yield to the sterner imperatives of class, their own class: such, in my view, is the inevitability of historical process. And this generally regressive impulse will include a return of young women to the sexual role determined in their middle-class origins, that of woman's emotional submission to men, a submission most readily made manifest in economic abdication...
...early for TIME'S "Man of the Year" nominations, but surely deserving consideration are Pakistani Ambassador Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan, Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf Ghorbal and Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi for their crucial role in the release of the hostages held by the Hanafi gunmen...
...Kennedy assassination, De Mohrenschildt was an oil geologist employed by the U.S. State Department in Haiti. He had known Oswald for a year (they were members of a Russian-speaking group in Dallas), and he told the Warren Commission in 1964 that he knew nothing of Oswald's role in the Kennedy killing. But during a series of meetings with Oltmans beginning in 1966, De Mohrenschildt began to remember things differently By 1975, during an interview with Oltmans on Dutch television, he insisted that Oswald was led by others. Oltmans told colleagues, "De Mohrenschildt knows a lot more than...
Labor Pains. English Actor Robert Powell handles the impossible role of Jesus with considerable skill. The script enables him to present a complex personality who chats amiably with the rabbis on whether "the Sabbath is made for man," but who also swings a heavy club to smash the money-changers' booths in the Temple. Olivia Hussey, who at age 15 played Juliet for Zeffirelli, is a winsomely girlish Virgin Mary who suffers real labor pains and is the object of respect, though not veneration, during Jesus' lifetime...