Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cooperate with his administration. Two weeks ago, he dismissed a fourth mayor. The first round of firings led to strikes and demonstrations in the West Bank and even in Gaza, which had previously been relatively dormant. As the reaction began to die down, a shooting rampage by an Israeli soldier at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem stirred up Palestinian resentment against Israeli rule all over again. The soldier, American-born Alan Goodman, has been charged with the murder of an Arab guard...
...life drama and meaning. The young went off to it with a Zouave gaiety. In our own time, we have expected our candidates for public office to have a war record. In his Inaugural Address, John Kennedy, skipper of PT109, called his a generation "tempered by war." Not every soldier, of course, went to battle with George Patton's mystic glee; he wrote his wife in 1944 that "peace is going to be a hell of a letdown...
...danger, intensity, comradeship, travel and stories to bore people with years later. It meant a nihilistic freedom. Few of us have come equipped with the spiritual resources and moral poise of Archimedes, who chose to remain in Syracuse, imperturbably thinking about mathematics while invading Romans gashed through town. A soldier stabbed Archimedes to death as he drew a geometrical figure in the sand...
...Printing Office picks up the exams each day and takes them across the river to the office's Allston headquarters and printing plant. This transfer is the stage most susceptible to theft and leaks in the entire process and requires a certain amount of security. But like any good soldier on the defensive, administrators involved with distributing exams are completely closemouthed on the subject...
...grandson of architects, was a smooth courtier. His stern father (John Gielgud) despised the Nazis from the start for their socialism rather than their nationalism, but Albert felt no foreboding at all. This TV movie wonders just what he was capable of feeling. Hauer is a Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange, Nighthawks) with a sharp-featured face that emotion seems never to have touched. Thus he makes a perfect Speer, whom E. Jack Neuman's teleplay depicts as a young man not so much on the make as on the irresistible rise. He is a camera that, too late...