Word: roles
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Until the early 1980s, after Klarsfeld led an energetic campaign, hardly any French textbook even mentioned the Vichy government's treatment of Jews or its role in the deportations...
Radcliffe also offers various non-academic programs geared specifically toward women undergraduates. The school offers a spring-break externship program which gives students the opportunity to live and work with an alumna and a mentor program which introduces undergraduates to "role-model" alumnae in the Boston area. The college also dispenses funding for special projects for which any undergraduate may apply...
...Humane Society, eleven other animal-welfare groups and the Foundation on Economic Trends (which consists largely of Jeremy Rifkin, an implacable foe of genetic engineering) have petitioned the Patent Office to rescind its new policy. Such a reversal is unlikely. The agency's role is to encourage innovation, not to determine its ethical implications. That is the business of the Biomedical Ethics Board, which was established by Congress in 1985 but has not yet met. The board's deliberations are long overdue, says John Fletcher, chief of the bioethical program at the National Institutes of Health: "Our society is starved...
...role he is enacting, Speech Scholar Henry Higgins, became virtually the personal property of Rex Harrison in the musical adaptation, My Fair Lady. Fans seeking a reprise of that winsome performance here will find far more of the imperious exterior with far less of the twinkly sugar daddy beneath. In O'Toole's view, the play is only outwardly about the civilizing of the street- corner flower seller Eliza Doolittle, who learns from " 'iggins" the speech and manner of a duchess. Underneath, he says, the play is about taming Higgins, a knowing product of the world of decorum and privilege...
...sketched by Shaw, Higgins is catnip to women, capable of making them love him, generally at a safe platonic distance, while being anything but lovable. O'Toole has made a career of playing such disappointed idealists, sinning in the name of some principle. He triumphed in the role in London's West End in 1984. That production suffered, however, from a bland and uninteresting Eliza. On Broadway she is played by Tony Winner Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God), a ferocious comedian who can be just as exotically mannered as O'Toole. The result could easily have been a mugging contest...