Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUBJECT WAS ROSES. The film adaptation of Frank D. Gilroy's play about familial agony in The Bronx is brought to life by the honest, homely acting of Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen...
...consideration of the actual event. Max Adrian is an ingratiating performer and a hardworking actor, and his night of Shavian lore (mostly letters and autobiographical fragments) really works. If it does not, on the other hand, make Shaw's presence a more vivid one, it is because the subject's real life was as a writer rather than a personality, a writer sufficiently great that his prose truly outshone his person. Under these circumstances, it is inevitable that a portrayal will seem to diminish Shaw's stature as much as it throws light on his character...
Spengler likes to run alone, and he likes to run often. He seems to have a partially masochistic motive for the gruelling daily routine to which he puts himself. He explains this by saying, "the more pain you subject yourself to in order to gain a reward, the more meaningful the reward...
Happily, both men emphasize that primary responsibility for protecting foreign countries should be shifted to regional groupings of the countries themselves-a subject crucial to U.S. policy in Southeast Asia after the Viet Nam war ceases. Humphrey says, for example, that Asia's regional defense should be led by Japan and India. But many exposed allies will be unable to protect themselves until they achieve political and economic stability-and that will require foreign aid. The Vice President advocates more U.S. economic aid, while Nixon hopes to hold it down by giving aid to fewer countries and inducing affluent...
Freidel added that this was the first time he had lectured so extensively on this subject...