Word: southerns
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...Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and is famed as an actress for her performance of Greek and Shakespearean drama. Now 70 and living in Southern California, Dame Judith Anderson has decided to take a fling at a slightly different role. In A Man Called Horse, she plays a Sioux squaw-even speaks her lines in the Indian language. The film stars Richard Harris as a British nobleman who is captured by the Sioux and given to Dame Judith as a beast of burden. "I shouldn't call it a Western," she explained. "Dramatically...
Looking rather like a visitor to Dante's Inferno, Pope Paul VI last week stood before a blazing blast furnace and watched as sputtering molten iron ore was poured into ingots. The Pope was visiting the Italsider steel plant in the Southern Italian town of Taranto, where, true to a promise he had made last month, he celebrated Christmas Eve Mass for 7,000 steelworkers and their families. In his sermon, delivered from an altar made of rolled steel slabs, Paul deplored the "separation and lack of understanding" that divides the worlds of labor and religion. "It almost seems...
Like Cheek, Henderson puts a high priority on urban studies, is establishing a Southern Center for Studies in Pub lic Policy with a $25,000 planning grant from the Field Foundation. He is also using grants to pay for an upcoming seminar on the economic development of black ghettos and a program to upgrade Negro college newspapers...
...Southern black colleges have never drawn significant financial support from local whites, Tougaloo least of all as a result of its long and honorable history as a hotbed of civil rights activity. "The police in Jackson have often referred to our students as 'them smart niggers from Tougaloo,' " says Owens, and only two years before he took over the presidency, there was a serious effort in the Mississippi legislature to revoke Tougaloo's charter "in the public interest." Owens has no intention of caving in. Says he: "We could do it the other .way, give...
Candy is based on the Terry Southern-Mason Hoffenberg satirical novel in much the same way that an elephant might be based on a mouse. All that is left is a smear. Candy (Ewa Aulin), a teeny-bopper who seems to be mentally retarded, is molested by a series of dirty old men in odd clothing. They include a Mexican gardener (Ringo Starr), a poet (Richard Burton), a guru (Marlon Brando), a Minuteman general (Walter Matthau), a surgeon (James Coburn), and Candy's uncle and father-both played by John Astin. The attacks take place on a pool table...