Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...view of the fact that Big Labor played a major role in wrecking the economy of England and New York City, I would feel a lot safer if Carter and Meany were not even on speaking terms...
PHILLIP BURTON, 50, a prickly, hyperaggressive liberal Californian who began his race for leader more than a year ago and is generally considered the front runner with an estimated 100 votes pledged to him. Burton played a key role in early 1975 in thwarting a move to oust Wayne Hays from his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. When Hays was forced to resign after the disclosure that he kept bosomy Elizabeth Ray on the Government payroll. Burton lost some support. Though Burton insists, "Tip and I will work very well together," the two men are often at odds; twice...
...kinship with him. We might want to identify with Sir Thomas, Bolt intimates, but in truth we are no better than the jury that condemns him. In this production, we in fact become that jury--it is to us Cromwell turns as he urges conviction. In our role as jurors, we judge More guilty; but in our role as audience, we understand his motives for dying, and judge their dramatization a success...
After a few seconds of reflection, many conceded that they wanted a role in handling the commencement affairs due to their affection for Harvard and their classmates, and their desire for a good old time...
Kiernan's portrayal of the Palestinian movement is a sympathetic one, and in showing how Arafat's role grew out of the frustrations of his early years the study is in a sense sympathetic towards its protagonist--although the reader is not left with a particularly warm regard for Arafat. Kiernan's treatment is admirably detached and well-balanced--his critique of Arafat is implicit rather than blatant...