Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tennessee Valley Authority Chairman David Freeman explained yesterday, when every position on T.V.A.'s three-man board of directors opened up last year, Jimmy Carter had an opportunity unprecedented since the New Deal years to play Franklin Roosevelt, to restore some of the creative, idealistic spirit that characterized T.V.A. before the Eisenhower and Nixon appointees took over...
...Carter has appointed thus far, and who compose a majority on the board, favor restoring the T.V.A. to its original role. Asked if he would continue to lead the agency in a new direction, David Freeman said no, that he would restore the T.V.A.'s traditional role as a laboratory for the testing of new ideas. Freeman has not hesitated to use the broad authority granted directors in the 1933 Act to carry out his goals...
...experiment also enables middle and low income consumers to buy expensive solar water heating equipment by giving them a loan at an interest rate of 3.37 per cent to be paid back over twenty years. Even without any publicity for the project, 900 people have volunteered to participate, and Freeman imagines a day when all the valley's residents will use solar energy to heat their water. There is a second project cranking up that will test solar space heating systems...
Goodness is all in this role, and Roscoe Orman conveys it with naked honesty, especially in a touching scene with his loyal wife Portia (Mary Alice). Gylan Kain's Cassius is less convincing. He possesses the character's guile and envy but not his menace. Morgan Freeman, an actor of intrepid gifts, would have suited the part better, and is somewhat wasted as Casca. While firm in his authority, Sonny Jim Games' Caesar is smugly arrogant rather than imperiously regal...
...John Havens (H) def. Tracy Freeman...