Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University should not wait until embarrassment forces it to hire a Negro professor. The fastest way to build up a "pyramid" of academic excellence is not layer by layer. People in the highest levels inspire and give hope to those...
...legislators rose to attack the policies of Prime Minister Samir Rifai, whom Hussein had appointed only 24 days earlier. Rifai was in favor of linking Jordan with Nasser's group, but wanted to take his time about it. The parliamentarians did not want to wait. After nine hours of it, Rifai stormed out of the chamber, handed his resignation to King Hussein...
...Wince & Wait. By that time, Richard Burton was a long way from the Old Vic. As his stage career fanned to promise and even moments of greatness, he salted his interludes with movies. Everyone does this. Sir Laurence Olivier was in Spartacus. But Burton's serious work on the stage began to atrophy as he gave himself increasingly to films, playing opposite an odd assortment of ladies?Lana Turner, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Simmons?in weak pictures wherein he was miscast. Given his professional fears and the economic spareness of his beginnings, it is not hard to understand...
...academic training succeeded as well. Richard was accepted by Exeter College, Oxford. The R.A.F. conveniently provided a scholarship, indenturing him to air service later on. He had to wait two terms before he would actually be in statu pupillari, so he answered an ad in Wales's Western Mail, placed by Actor Emlyn Williams, seeking a young Welsh actor for a play called The Druid's Rest. He got the part and spent five months in the West End, going up to Oxford as a slightly seasoned professional...
...puppet," he says. "On a stage, you are the boss." Significantly, he was the tribune Marcellus in The Robe, the first CinemaScope spectacle. "It is the bane of my life," he says. "Whenever a fan comes up to me and says, 'I enjoyed you in ..." I wince, and wait. It's almost always The Robe. The picture was rubbish. It was written as if for Peg's Paper*It was tastelessly sentimental, and badly acted by me." How did he like The Rains of Ran-chipur? "Beyond human belief." Bitter Victory? "Anonymous." Edna Ferber's Ice Palace? "A cold Giant...