Word: roosevelts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GROUP. Under the expert tutelage of Director Sidney Lumet, eight captivating young actresses rediscover the Roosevelt era in an irresistible drama based on Mary McCarthy's bitchy, college-bred bestseller about what happened to Vassar's class of '33 after commencement day. Joan Hackett, Jessica Walter, Shirley Knight and Joanna Pettet are the most active alumnae...
...until World War II that a President actively enlisted the No. 2 man's talents. Yet, though Henry Wallace performed many chores for Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman during his 82 days as Vice President rarely saw F.D.R. and was not even informed of the atomic bomb's development...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 51, now chairman of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, longs for the job his father once had, but has not yet convinced party leaders that he is remotely equal to that opportunity...
...most in both diagnosis and prescription. Brooke, who repudiated the Goldwater campaign in 1964, charges that the G.O.P. is suffering from leadership anemia, which in turn has produced "poor programs." It has "all but exiled" minority groups, conducted "campaign-by-slogan," betrayed the heritage of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt...
Culler's introduction hints that the anthology is a Curiosity, published for the intimate Harvard family. Most people wouldn't buy it if just any Joe were writing about "football at other colleges," but it's Theodore Roosevelt sizing up the Ivy League. Therefore, the book, a real cocktail party conversation piece, will end up on innumerable coffee tables. But it should be kept within the family. The outside world should never find out that Harvard College didn't teach its distinguished graduates everything they know. The Advocate Centennial Anthology ought only to be sold sub rosa during Commencement Week...