Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Untimely circumstances aside, there was another good reason for the mildness of the affair. A primary issue Kennedy, McCarthy, and McGovern had raised--whether sane, attractive men would run the federal show--had been settled for the time being. Fifteen minutes of Gene was no longer Heaven--especially since it followed interminable harangues by the likes of Richard Goodwin, Shirley MacLaine, and Michael Schwartz. Paul O'Dwyer's charming brogue and John Gilligan's verbal restraint were a bit more encouraging, though the feeling lurked that both were probable losers come November...
Besides serving as captain, Sione doubles as team manager, unofficial coach, and schedule-maker. Matches must be arranged for all three Harvard teams each week, and due to the informality of most college teams, scheduling is often a challenge. But Sione feels that "if a boy shows enough interest to come out and play, I will show enough interest to arrange a match for him to play...
Ultimately the real concern of this movie is not to tell us what the Charge of the Light Brigade meant, but simply to show us how it looked. And this, for all the cast of thousands and the vast expanses of eerie, treeless Turkish landscape, is something which Richardson doesn't really succeed in doing. Individual sequences are sometimes breathtaking--Nolan delivering the order to charge from the heights, the Brigade advancing down the valley at a slow trot, the final torrential surge of the survivors through the Russian cannon. But hovering above the whole elaborately-conceived spectacle...
...Show Concern...
Pusey praised the growing social awareness of young people but cautioned that there is a real need for young people "who, seeing injustice, poverty, hatred and all the rest, will not only show concern, but take the time and effort to get themselves informed so that they may move effectively against such evils...