Word: jeremiahs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Nowadays, those little men in the funnies carrying signs reading THE END OF THE WORLD IS AT HAND need only walk as far as the nearest publisher's office to get the message printed. The latest Jeremiah to join the prophets of ecological disaster is Robert Boyle, who is concerned with the Hudson River and man's efforts to turn this noble flood into a squalid sewer...
...favorite farmhands into a scarecrow, a tinman and a lion. Similarly, Rolfe as Pope Hadrian VII can launch heroic reforms in the Church, patronize innocent Agnes with her pickled onions and her rooming house, and (last but not least) become a glorious martyr. Rolfe is assassinated by Jeremiah Sant, the fiery Ulsterman who aids Mrs. Crowe the landlady in blackmail schemes. His dream rounds out his neurotic life ambitions with a thoroughness missing even in Putney Swope...
...acting, crowned by Hume Cronyn's compelling performance, is excellent. The other characters, however, are left with usually sketchy parts. Margaret Braidwood as Mrs. Crowe and Paul Harding as the Bishop of Caerleon were splendid, though Donald Ewer as Mr. Crowe's accomplice in blackmail burlesqued the role of Jeremiah Sant with a thick Irish accent. Liza Cole, Julie Andrews' mother in Hawaii, played the warm-hearted Agnes with unabashed charm. Her reward after the wildly sentimental scene with Hadrian in the Papal chambers was a well-deserved round of applause...
...chairmen, Joseph D. Gebhardt, a second-year Law student, and Stanley S. Surrey, Jeremiah Smith Professor of Law, refused to recognize the motion at first, but finally adjourned the meeting after consulting with the committee...
...five-man committee appointed by Bok to set up the meeting met yesterday and released a tentative agenda for today's meeting in Ames Courtroom. It also announced that Joseph D. Gebhardt. a second-year law student and member of the Governance Committee. and Stanley S. Murray, Jeremiah Smith Professor of Law, will chair the meeting...