Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost and those who have won by the war. She makes no effort to analyze the causes of the war in Vietnam; that is not her mission. Her goal is that of a reporter, to describe what has happened, and she makes little attempt to move beyond that limited role. In some ways that omission is unfortunate: the reader is left curious about the meaning of Emerson's experience about just what it is that she expects people to remember. The horror of it she presents clearly. The reasons the Vietnam war is a more horrible episode than other colonial...
...Green plays the role of the Crimson's Ivy League wild card, as the squads do not meet each other on weekends, which is the normal league format. When the quintets first played way back on December 15, Harvard emerged a handy 53-44 victor...
...brains of the dynamic duo, Fonda proves her talent as a comedienne even after previous roles as a hooker, a neurotic, and an anti-war activist. She's at her most caustic when she tells Dick to beware of the placement of his gun in his pants, as he might "go off half-cocked." Segal is barely adequate as her fumbling but well-intentioned husband. Dick is the quintessential Segal role, so sometimes he appears to sleepwalk through his unchallenging part. After a while, he follows every line with the same crooked grin and hand gesture. And McMahon helps turn...
...still hotly debated Agricultural Labor Relations Act. On the bench, she is expected to work toward reforms in court procedures. "I've seen her on the firing line, and invariably her judgment is of the highest order," says Brown. "I think she can bring to her role a fundamental quality-wisdom...
...ELDERLY, as a much bigger and therefore more influential segment of the population, with longer life expectancy, will almost certainly insist on filling a more productive role in society than they occupy today. With a smaller work force, the mandatory retirement age within the next quarter-century will have to be advanced to 70. Indeed, many social critics have long argued that the nation is spinning off an incalculably valuable resource by relegating robust, creative people to senior citizens' ghettos. The graying of America will offer new opportunities for the retired. There is already a crying need...