Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testing for the film was unbelievable: I had to go back three times. I went back the first time, and I knew I wasn't wanted. Even when I started, I felt I wasn't really wanted, and that's a difficult thing to work through." This, in spite of a dazzling record in the theater--he won an Obie for The Indian Wants the Bronx in 1968 ("I wound up in the hospital from that") and a Tony for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? in 1969 ("I couldn't handle it")--and rave reviews for his performance...
Stanley Kramer's R.P.M. * (Revolutions Per Minute) was Segal's next screenplay, and it met sudden death at the hands of critics and public alike. In spite of its resounding failure. R.P.M * is a script Segal is proud of. "It has more intellectual content than anything else I've ever written for the screen." It was about a professor caught in a crisis of values. It was, he says, loosely based on Harvard. The premise: Blacks and white radicals at the quasi-mythical Hudson University occupy College Hall and the president rather than inviting the bloodshed of a police bust...
...That theory is false, according to a new study by Colin Greer, The Great School Legend (Basic Books; $6.95). "The truth is that the immigrant children dropped out in great numbers-to fall back on the customs and skills their families brought with them to America. It was in spite of, and not because of compulsory public education that some eventually made their...
...George S. McGovern (D.S.D.) last night attacked the Nixon administration for allegedly allowing over 100 "large monopolized industries" to continue to raise prices in spite of the wage and price freeze...
...question of discrimination is a very sensitive one to a university administrations' posture, which is traditionally liberal. It is interesting that in spite of the controversies and often adversary stances between women, universities and the government, all agree with the goal, as stated by Elliot Richardson: "We try to get rid of discrimination as soon as we become aware of it." And the role of women--as many people have been saying for a long time in various contexts--is clear. The end of the quote by Lucy Stone--a quote which is framed on Bernice Sandler's wall--sums...