Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WATCHING A SUPERB actor debase himself in search of that seven figure income no longer shocks me--the sight of Sir Laurence Olivier pounding away at a French maid in The Betsy destroyed any illusions I might have entertained about artistic integrity. But the opposite situation--watching a former TV sit-com starlet metamorphose into a first-rate actress--amazed me. Expecting "Gidget Goes to Harlan County," I was surprised, impressed and moved by Sally (Flying Nun) Field's performance in Martin Ritt's new film, Norma Rae. She delivers a powerful shaded performance as Southern woman who slowly learns...
...writes that by adopting a position on moral questions, the University would establish an official orthodoxy that might silence debate and limit the "open-minded search for truth." But moral choices will have to be made: the Harvard Corporation's current orthodoxy, which sanctions investment in South Africa, bolsters the profits of the Nestle corporation, and glorifies a man who made his fortune in the mines of South Africa, is a more pernicious denial of free expression than the orthodoxy President Bok tries to scare us with. As of now, the seven men on the Harvard Corporation make decisions...
...year ago, the Music Department denied Adams tenure, despite his overwhelming student support. Last spring, Dean Rosovsky established a student search committee composed of members of the Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Collegium Musicum to find a successor to Adams. After narrowing the field and inviting the frontrunners to Cambridge to conduct the three groups, the committee chose Jameson M. Marvin, who was then offered the position by the Music Department. Adams is presently studying conducting in Germany...
...Search of History, White...
...stories, told and retold, sometimes acquire a life of their own. Over the years some of the faithful have been trekking to Aurora to search for the small spaceman's grave. "Sometimes they take souvenirs, and a couple of years back somebody stole the spaceman's tombstone," says H.R. Idell, the town marshal, referring to a big rock with a mysterious-looking crack in it. "But mostly folks just poke around in the ruins...