Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would subject himself to such an existence for three months of the year is a question that does not have one correct response. There are as many different answers as there are players with clean uniforms. Some do it for the love of the game--"football junkies" so to speak--others because they're chasing that elusive rainbow, the hope that someday they'll get their chance in front of 40,000 people in the Yale game...
...issue of the Harvard Educational Review, three correspondents speak to this phenomenon: "Each label," they wrote, "implicitly or explicitly points to an alleged deficiency, weakness, or absence of a quality in the Black American. The deficit model clearly embraces a doctrine in which white middle class culture is the acceptable norm." (November...
...played only in Mao's honor. Significantly, the new helmsman was dressed in full military uniform, as were almost one-third of the other officials on the reviewing stand-a clear sign of the army's importance as the guarantor of the new leadership. Hua did not speak during the coronation-type ceremony, leaving the keynote task to Peking's mayor, Wu Teh, who assured the crowd that the new Chairman had the blessing of the old. "With you in charge, I'm at ease," Mao is said to have told...
...million National Theater in London. The star of the official curtain raising: Actor Laurence Olivier, 69, who founded the National Theater Acting Company in 1962, and who appeared onstage to thank "all relevant councils, committees, boards and departments, indeed, Your Majesty's treasury, not to speak of our brother and sister taxpayers." Olivier, who has recently forsaken his own stage career (but not films) after battling a strength sapping muscle disorder, finished his speech by wishing to those who follow, "joy eternal." While the audience, which included Playwrights Eugéne Ionesco and J.B. Priestley, applauded, the trouper then...
WOMEN'S ROLE. In a blunt challenge to Pope Paul, who sent a specially filmed message to open the conference, the delegates urged that women be admitted to the priesthood. One of the 520 women delegates seemed to speak for the meeting when she said that Catholicism has lost members who "no longer can believe in a church that discriminates against women." The meeting also appealed for an end to "sexist" language in liturgy and church documents, an enterprise that is currently engaging some Protestants and Jews (see following story...