Word: seymour
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Actress Jane Seymour has made a career out of portraying sexy, scheming ladies. Seymour, 33, played the femme fatale in both the TV mini-series East of Eden and the small-screen version of The Sun Also Rises. In her new film, Head Office, she is again true to form-this time in the boardroom. "I play a lady executive sleeping her way to the top," Seymour reports. "In many ways she is the most honest of the characters." Still, the star was bothered about her new role. "Would a thinking woman, a feminist do this?" she asked herself, then...
...Seymour Fisher, Ph.D. The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas
...Confidence Gap: Business, Labor, and Government in the Public Mind, published just last year, Stanford University Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset and Political Analyst William Schneider examined reams of survey research and concluded that an American malaise, a loss of faith in social institutions, was continuing unabated. Now, however, Lipset's view of the national climate has changed strikingly. "I think it will take some years for Americans to have digested the disappointment they felt over Viet Nam and Watergate," he says, "but I think we are witnessing a fundamental shift toward more positive attitudes about American institutions." Two-thirds...
...Corporation is often referred to as "The Oldest Self-Perpetuating Body in the Western Hemisphere" because it has continually replenished its ranks without outside interference since 1650, as Seymour Martin Lipset and Samuel Eliot Morrison describe in their histories of Harvard. But during the past 334 years its role within the University has changed considerably. The Corporation has always supervised Harvard's finances, but after 250 years of relatively easy management, the job has become increasingly complex in this century...
...provocative ads, and eight others like them, are the first volleys in a new war against political action committees (PACs). Leading the PAC attack: Philip Stern, a Washington philanthropist and liberal Democratic activist who last September joined forces with New York Republican Whitney North Seymour Jr., a former U.S. Attorney, to form the nonpartisan "citizens against PACS." The group's goal is to pressure Congress into eliminating the corporate, labor union and special-interest PACs that make what Stern calls "ax-to-grind" contributions to candidates. Says he: "We want to make it uncomfortable for Congress to continue accepting...