Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House Committee-and soon the Internal Revenue Service-focused on the role of John P. Mohr, an assistant director of the bureau, who retired in 1972. Mohr headed the office at the FBI that bought the equipment. He also had close ties to Tait, who was a regular at the poker games organized by Mohr at the exclusive Blue Ridge Club in West Virginia's Shenandoah Mountains; but last November the club and some of its records were destroyed in a fire whose origin is still undetermined...
...helped harbor her for a time in a Pennsylvania farmhouse. And Patty may be a witness at hearings that could lead to indictments of the Harrises in connection with the Hibernia Bank robbery (they are alleged to have been waiting outside in a back-up car)-and for their role in Patty's own kidnaping in February 1974. In a crucial sense, Patty's ordeal at that point will have completed a full, ironic circle...
Does it matter? Very much, because the enterprise is serious and several of the curators have done an exemplary job. Nobody attentive to American culture can leave the Whitney without having his or her ideas about sculpture in this country-its history, quality and social role-changed and stimulated. The first thing that strikes one is the prompt, and precipitous, decline of American sculpture after the arrival of the white man: until the late 19th century, the white tribes of America could produce nothing that came close to Indian art in vitality, beauty or density of meaning. The point...
...classroom antics have made him a character on the Princeton University campus; during lectures, he suddenly breaks into near perfect imitations of Peter Lorre or John Gielgud or a Jewish mother. He can also transform his Shakespeare and modern drama classes into vibrant theater, effortlessly slipping into the role of King Lear, perhaps, or Uncle Vanya. But to the dismay of Seltzer's students, their professor is saving his best dramatic efforts these days for enthusiastic audiences on Broadway...
Seltzer, 43, is playing a starring role in Knock Knock, Jules Feiffer's successful new play about two middle-aged men living in seclusion (TIME, Feb. 2). Last week Seltzer was nominated for a Tony award for his role as Cohn, a fussy, intellectual eccentric. When Seltzer read his part to some of his students before the play opened, they thought he was merely being himself. Says Katherine Mendeloff, a senior English major from Baltimore: "It's so Seltzerian. Feiffer must have written it especially...