Word: roughed
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...history, which has become a theatrical legend: Originally written as a Federal Theater Project, Cradle was censored by its federal "employers," who refused to allow the actors to set foot on stage, so the pianist played while actors spoke the lines from their seats in the house. There are rough edges in this production, notably the awkward casting of Lars Gunnar-Wigemark as two very different characters in back-to-back scenes, and roughest among them remains the attempt to square things with the present. But the illusion holds, strongly enough so that it would hardly be a surprise...
...economy by cutting taxes, increasing spending and expanding the money supply. "There is a zero chance of depression," says Richard Rahn, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He scorns the loose depression talk. "The wimps of the world," he says, "buckle when the going gets a little rough...
True, this movie is no documentary; director Costa-Gavras has abandoned the rough, detached, street observer approach of his earlier "Z" in favor of personalized portraits of his characters and highly-polished production Yet while the State Department has issued a formal statement condemning the premise behind the movie, no one has yet tried to challenge it in court. The story is based upon the disappearance of a young American writer. Charlie Horman '64, who was living in Chile when the Allende government was over-thrown in 1973 Immediately following the revolution, Horman's father (Jack Lemmon '47) travels...
General Earle Wheeler, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, thought I would be most comfortable with an officer with advanced degrees from famous institutions. Having taught at Harvard, I rated somewhat lower the wisdom evidenced by such degrees. I sought a more rough-cut type, someone with combat experience, familiar with operational planning. Alexander M. Haig Jr., then a colonel at West Point, was recommended by conservatives and liberals. I offered him the post after one interview...
...sure, nobody survives in the rough-and-tumble of White House politics-especially of the Nixon White House-without a good measure of ruthlessness. Haig was implacable in squeezing to the sidelines potential competitors for my attention. At the same time, I am sure, he was not above presenting himself to my subordinates as the good guy tempering my demanding, somewhat unbalanced, nature. He worked assiduously at establishing his own personal relationship first with Haldeman and Ehrlichman, then with Nixon. I did not doubt that they considered him more of a loyalist than me. I began to wonder whether Haig...