Word: stalwartness
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...harm of the CSCR report is hard to measure. The committee's procedures, which called for closed committee and subcommittee meetings, caused one PBH stalwart, Barry F. O'Connell '65, to submit his resignation as graduate secretary, and the damage list is still not complete. The CSCR recommendations to Dean Dunlop could provide him with a protective umbrella to phase out the Faculty subsidy by June 1973. In addition, the Corporation might point to the CSCR report as a major reason for upholding the decision to shut down the PBH building in the evenings and on weekends, a move that...
...through parody of the fairy-tale, slyly parodies history. It unmasks in a Bavarian setting the rise of a parvenn power-maniac, played by Michael York, as a cool mastery of perversion and murder. Angela Lansbury as the Countess von Ornstein nostalgically bewails the passing of "real men"-that stalwart Germanic breed in direct lineage from Attila the Hun and Barbarossa. In a world of "upstarts, the American tourists and plastic dirndls," she craves submission to a genuinely phallic male like Conrad. She also craves money...
Through all of this Rockefeller has been conducting a subdued primary campaign against three very unformidable opponents. He virtually is the Republican party in Arkansas, having personally financed it for years and built his own tenuous alliance of blacks, stalwart Republicans, white moderates, and liberal Democrats...
...Wyoming's John Wold, 53, long a party stalwart, may get enough help from a third-party peace candidate to unseat Gale McGee, the Democratic incumbent who is generally a liberal but a consistent supporter of the war. Wold faces insignificant primary opposition...
...film's hero is Simon James (Bruce Davidson), a stalwart on the university rowing team with only a passing interest in political agitation. Radical students call for a strike against the university's plan to put up an ROTC headquarters on a playground, while James and his teammates scull on the river. Two chants ring in our hero's ears: "Stroke!" and "Strike!", surely a more suitable title for this simpleminded exercise. James chooses the latter. It is never explained why, exactly, although it seems to have something to do with the nubile presence of Linda...