Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the "stabilizing" influence of the 13,000 Cuban troops still in Angola, for instance-that the State Department was busy "correcting" for some days thereafter. Following talks with several African heads of state who were attending a national celebration in Tanzania, Young spoke ambiguously at times about the role Britain should play in a Rhodesian settlement...
...been breaking the boycott on chrome clandestinely, the Byrd Amendment's open defiance of the U.N. sanctions has caused great resentment in black Africa. Repeal of that amendment would be Washington's strongest message to Ian Smith to date that the U.S. intends to take an active role in achieving a Rhodesian settlement...
...movie these days, but for twelve weekend performances in a workshop production at Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, he agreed to work for nothing. "I even put in $1 a week for coffee," he says good-naturedly. Why so? Jones, 46, is fascinated with his role of Oedipus Rex and the adaptation of Sophocles' play selected for the production. For Translator John Lewin, says Jones, "the gut of the play is the discovery that Oedipus' mama agreed with Oedipus' papa to put Oedipus on a hillside at age three or four weeks, with...
...Romeo of the television screen has gone legit. Henry Winkler, a.k.a. "the Fonz" on ABC's Happy Days, will play Juliet's lover on CBS's March 20 special Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare. Fonzie also narrates the show and even played a major role in the programming. Because the special is meant for young people, Winkler vetoed including Falstaff' s drinking scene, arguing that "alcoholism is even a bigger problem than drugs among the kids...
...advantage, it seems to me, of single sex education for women, is that it exposes women to positive role models and encourages them to succeed. Until coeducational institutions like Harvard/Radcliffe have more equal numbers of men and women professors and professionals, until their budgets reflect an equal commitment to male and female athletic activities, until there is equal respect, encouragement, and opportunity for the achivements of women students, the option of women's colleges must be maintained. Elisabeth Griffith Fellow, Institute of Politics John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government