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...superior script is paired with a talented cast. Each character-from the greedy ranch owner to the pathetic, crippled stable boy-rings true. This across-the-board excellence pays tribute to both the director and the actors It seems that Sinise strove for historical accuracy to great success. Veteran actor Ray Walston as Candy, also a survivor of the Depression, contributes a moving performance convincing the audience of the isolation of a ranch hand's life...
...diversity. There are no heroes of tolerance here, native or otherwise, although Vollmann grudgingly admires Samuel de Champlain, the stodgy soldier who founded Quebec. French lay explorers craved beaver pelts. The priestly black gowns wore hair shirts and spiked girdles in self- mortification, and lusted to harvest souls. They strove to break down native sexual and religious customs, but, as Vollmann tells it, were more tolerant of the Indians' prolonged and joyous ritual torture of captured enemies. Tribes sold their souls (literally) as dearly as possible, in return for iron hatchets, copper cook pots, measles and smallpox, a few guns...
During his tenure, Pilbeam strove to reduce the number of large courses, to increase the number of seminars and to increase faculty interaction with students...
...Knowles strove to address the Faculty's budgetwoes without cutting any programs, and withouttouching areas that were central to thecurriculum...
Baseball card collecting became a passion for millions of kids across the nation who strove to collect each year's entire set, trade their "doubles" for eagerly sought cards and augment their education by gleaning statistics off the cards' backs...