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...bishops met and themselves divided along linguistic lines about the university's future. They turned the problem over to the government and, when eight Flemish ministers of Vanden Boeynants' moderate Christian Socialist Party threatened to resign unless the students got their way, Vanden Boeynants tried in vain for a compromise. When none could be agreed upon, Vanden Boeynants handed King Baudouin his government's resignation. His Cabinet will remain as caretaker until a new government can be patched together-a prickly task that may lead to the dissolution of Parliament and new elections...
Andover was never out of the game 'til the final buzzer, and registered with less than four minutes to go. Dennis Sullivan scored on a power play in a vain comeback effort...
...been delivered the official warning but heard it secondhand from their colleagues, decided to go anyway. At the door, they found a phalanx of Soviet security men, who first took their pictures, then turned them away. Inside, the two women waited in their secondfloor apartment in vain...
Some good acting gets lost in Nichols' vain attempt to prove himself a purveyor of cinematic pizazz. Bancroft and Hoffman are more capable than the script or direction allows them to demonstrate: Bancroft disappears altogether, and Hoffman is forced into too many blankfaced ambiguous close-ups. Katherine Ross's perfect pre-Raphaelite beauty overshadows her valiant attempt to create something from nothing, an attempt which almost succeeds (as if it matters whether anyone so gorgeous can act). The Graduate's best performance comes from Murray Hamilton as cuckolded Mr. Robinson, an all-too-tangential figure in the proceedings...
...summer of '67 marked his move from dissent to resistance, as he spent the greater part of three months "hassling" with his local board in a vain attempt to be granted CO status or be reclassified 2-S. He made numerous trips to Buffalo and couldn't hold a regular summer...