Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walter Leonard has allowed major appointments and promotion in associate and assistant deanships to slip by without regard to AA. He has been silent on the controversial non-tenure of Afro-American scholar Ephraim Issac. He has been given credit for increasing the number of Law School blacks (Crimson, Oct. 5, 1976) with no mention of the student activism which initiated and supported increased admissions. Moreover, having gone on record innumerable times criticizing the University's failure to improve the status of women and minorities, he has yet to do anything to turn the trend. Most likely Leondard's office...
...competition, his picture has a pleasant authenticity. There is also a nicely handled romantic triangle involving O'Neal, Burt Reynolds as a star and Newcomer Jane Hitchcock as a comically nearsighted actress. What goes wrong with the picture is an overreliance on slapstick, the nearly lost silent film technique, as a device to evoke the spirit of the time. Bogdanovich apparently does not quite trust his film's softer side to grab interest, especially in the early going...
Speak, people, speak. This is the moment. Don V listen to those who say stay silent. Don't let anyone decide...
...dark, silent, timeless, a room that could have been anywhere or nowhere, a setting out of Kafka...
...political connotations cannot be ignored. There is little doubt that Gaddafi, in approaching Fiat, relished the opportunity to buy a piece of international respectability and take a mild slap at Libya's former colonizer, all in one gesture. Should Gaddafi, an activist who is unlikely to be a silent partner, continue to make similar investments, radical Arabs-including terrorists whom Gaddafi finances-could have some power levers to pull. One example: Libya's archrival Egypt makes 12,000 Nasr autos a year under Fiat license; Gaddafi's Fiat connection gives him a new stick to shake...