Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several hundred Harvard Faculty members, alumni and friends filled Memorial Church yesterday in a tribute to former Harvard President James Bryant Conant '14, who died January 11 at the age...
...Factor, doesn't even have the long-lost piety to hang on to. He still sneaks into an occasional church (he's an ex-Protestant, not Catholic), and tries to summon up guilt and contrition, but somehow nothing happens. What Maurice Castle, middle-echelon British intelligence officer, near retirement age and with jurisdiction over Africa, lives for is security and peace of mind. All Castle really treasures is his routine, his two double whiskies before dinner, his comfortable house in the town outside London where he grew up, and his family. This attachment to the brood has an exotic twist...
...corner of Via Stresa and Via Fani, obscure street names that everyone in Italy knows today, a small, squat school bus braked slowly to a stop, and a flock of teen-age schoolgirls solemnly disembarked. They were 14 pupils of the school of the Little Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, all in dark sweaters over blue smocks and white collars. Two of them walked over to a flower vendor's panel truck near by, bought a bouquet of pink carnations and rejoined the group, now standing'all in a row. They laid down their flowers, crossed...
...best tactic to hide the lockjaw of his shrinking genius was to become the personality of our time." Fitzgerald, on the other hand, was not much of a self-promoter He even seems to have taken a sad pleasure in his role as the unstrung harp of the jazz age. "I talk with the authority of failure-Ernest with the authority of success," he wrote in his Notebook. His difficulties with alcohol and his desperate need to duplicate his youthful successes often drew harsh responses from his old friend Hemingway. In a letter to Maxwell Perkins, their editor at Scribner...
American Hot Wax is a B-movie masquerading as an A-movie. The amount of hype which has swelled up around this basically insignificant flick far outdistances the film's actual merit. Because it fictionalizes and defuses the larger social issues of the Golden Age of Rock and Roll, it loses all pretense of commenting upon them. It is in the end a flawed bit of light entertainment...