Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amherst President John William Ward has recommended to the College's Board of Trustees that Amherst admit women to its student body beginning with the 1974-1975 school year...
...Ward called for co-education at a meeting of 500 applauding faculty and students in Amherst's Johnson Chapel yesterday. He read an 18-page report recommending that Amherst increase the size of its student body from its present level of 1250 to 1600 by admitting women transfer students in the Fall of 1974 and accepting women into the freshman class the following year...
...education has been under discussion at Amherst for the past five years. Ward set up a Select Committee on Co-education last year which issued a report in July outlining the pros and cons of admitting women...
...Director Attenborough (Oh What a Lovely War) have whittled out of all the dispatches, memoirs and histories is antiseptic and servile, as empty of conflict as a biographical entry in the Britannica. The movie even employs an offscreen journalist, whose task it is to badger Young Winston (Simon Ward), his father Lord Randolph (Robert Shaw) and American mother (Anne Bancroft) with indelicate inquiries. "What precisely was the nature of your husband's last illness?" the journalist sneers from behind the camera, adding after an evasive answer, "Come, come, Lady Randolph, we live in modern times. Surely the word syphilis...
...pocket spectacle, there are also a couple of the battles in which he fought (a set-to in the Sudan, a Boer skirmish). Attenborough stages them with all the fury of a grade school recess. He has better luck with the actors, perhaps because he is an actor himself. Ward is credible in the thorny role of Winston as a young man, Shaw superb as his father. The secondary characters are all cast and played faultlessly, with Ian Holm as editor of the Times and Anthony Hopkins as Lloyd George especially engaging. Anne Bancroft, who ought to have been perfect...