Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Powers, however, defends Walden's promotion. He says that if Walden had remained in his job, instead of taking a three-year to hold his full-time union position, he would have been promoted anyway. "We weren't going to discriminate against him just because of his union work," Powers adds...
...search of a weekly identification figure. Enter Alan Alda, who was starring in films and TV movies without having hit it big and who was now ready for the right series. "In talking with Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds," Alda recalls, "I wanted to be sure that we weren't making an Abbott & Costello Go to Korea, using the war just as a straight line for the jokes. The war had to be a springboard for our best efforts, exploring the horror, not ignoring it." Everyone agreed that this would be, in Reynolds' words, "a different Hawkeye, more...
That critique will scarcely calm angry minorities and women. "We knew darn well they weren't going to be appointing Hispanics in this Administration," says Arnold Torres, executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Torres adds that his organization no longer bothers to lobby the White House on judicial choices. His anguish is shared by District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Gladys Kessler, head of the National Association of Women Judges. "The record is dismal," says Kessler. "We have some grave concerns about whether this Administration is really looking for women candidates." She also charges that...
...second liner on those early Crimson squads, Palmer clearly remembers those early days. "We had just moved into the new rink, had gotten all kinds of new equipment and really looked like a team. The only problem was that we still weren't very good. We were last in the Ivies, last in the Beanpot, last in everything...
...weren't for Harvard's decentralized, multi leveled theater setup, Hackett might not have pursued acting at all. In high school, she sang and acted in musicals. Freshman and sophomore years she sang with two Harvard bands. Hand to Mouth and The Girl Next Door, Her first, dampening encounter with acting at Harvard came freshman week when she tried out for a freshman seminar in acting given by Robert Chapman, professor of English. She was rejected...