Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second major British peace figure is E.P. Thompson, 57, the spokesman for European Nuclear Disarmament, an 18-member committee of intellectuals and activists who have similar goals to the C.N.D. In a pamphlet titled "Protest and Survive," Thompson argues that the deployment of new missiles in Western Europe is part of a plot to protect the U.S. from nuclear war at Europe's expense. America's NATO allies would be obliterated, he writes, although immense damage would also be inflicted upon Russia west of the Urals. The deployment of 160 cruise missiles in Britain, Thompson adds, is thus so frightening...
...WEST SIDE WALTZ by Ernest Thompson...
HANOVER, N. H.--Freshman Scott Fusco scored a hat trick in his first regular-season game, and brother Mark chipped in two goals and four assists as the Harvard hockey team opened its 1981-82 season with a bang here at Thompson Arena last night, ripping Dartmouth...
...disease, he still hopes to appear on Broadway next year as F.D.R.'s confidant Harry Hopkins. In her 75th year, Hepburn is magnetizing the attention of Philadelphia theatergoers in The West Side Waltz, prior to its Broadway opening next week. The play, written by On Golden Pond's Ernest Thompson, takes its own sweet three-quarter time to penetrate the twilight life of a Manhattan widow, but Hepburn triumphantly skirts sentimentality, displaying her radiance even as her character limps, hobbles and crawls toward accommodation with old age. The next time they meet, Hepburn might well say to Fonda what...
...Thompson's play?a critical success and modest hit on Broadway, with Frances Sternhagen and Tom Aldridge as the Thayers?almost filled the bill: it had everything but a role for Peter. "My dad isn't exactly Norman Thayer, but there's a lot of Dad in the part. And I guess there's a lot of Chelsea, Norman's daughter, in me. Like Chelsea, I had to get over the desperate need I once had for his approval, and to conquer my fear of him. We've never been intimate...