Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegate to the Democratic national convention, pledged to Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.). Although he came in second in the Mass primary, just slightly behind Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and well ahead of Jimmy Carter, Champion couldn't pull enough votes to get on the delegate's train to New York. One might have thought that Champion's political career would end there. But in the wake of Jimmy Carter's march through the primaries and his choice of Cabinet nominees, Champion was about to find resurrection...
...bounds on stage, organizing and directing the action with the sheer energy and power of his voice. Epstein's careful pacing helps drive home the moral of the play but his tone does not moderate sufficiently when he steps inside the action and plays an old man in a train station...
...state of hypnosis, then, with concentration and repeated practice, we hope that he will begin to act out his visualizations in reality," Sampson explains. He points to scientifically controlled research programs, some carried out at Columbia University, that demonstrate the ability of the subconscious mind to train itself for the acceptance of constructive suggestion which it can give to itself. This concept underpins Sampson's technique of "self-hypnosis...
...Goretta's latest film, that is. And the character of the thieving Pierre. And maybe bourgeois life in general. With the idea that "an individual is always more complex than he appears," Goretta adapted a quaint newspaper clipping about a furniture maker who starts robbing banks, post offices, and train stations because he can't afford to pay his employees (devoted to wood, he's being beaten in the market by the manufacturers of plastics) into a film that is more complex than its unostentatious style would indicate. Beneath the country picnics, the tender-funny lovemaking, the man who robs...
...become "so preoccupied with the immediate needs of their professions that they lose the perspective needed to appreciate the larger issues that society is pressing upon the profession." In the research-oriented professional schools--Divinity, Education, Design and Public Health--he emphasizes the need for more practical training alongside the research, to give graduates definite, marketable skills; and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he says, must be ready to train its graduates to fill posts outside of the traditional academic sphere. But there is an emphasis on quality throughout, on a clear "sense of mission": Bok is almost...