Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kaufman was a rich, famous author-collaborator of more than two dozen comedies and musicals, including You Can't Take It With You, Of Thee I Sing and Silk Stockings. His career as a critic, playwright and director spanned nearly 40 years, and his influence was enormous. Brooks Atkinson credited Kaufman with making the wisecrack part of our language. Groucho Marx claimed that "Kaufman gave me the walk and the talk...
...FRANK ATKINSON...
...been largely frivolous: MOM (for Men Our Masters), started by a Manhattan secretary, and its men's auxiliary WOW (for Women Our Wonders); and the Pussycat League, with its slogan "The lamb chop is mightier than the karate chop." More serious criticism has come from Ti-Grace Atkinson, an early theorist of the New Feminism who withdrew from the movement more than a year ago. Says Atkinson: "There is no movement. Movement means going some place, and the movement is not going anywhere. It hasn't accomplished anything...
...October. The Ford Motor Co. planned and helped to inaugurate phone-bus systems in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Columbus, Ohio. Consultants from M.I.T. helped to set up another in Batavia, N.Y. But none of the U.S. experiments compares in size to the system in Regina, where Transit Manager Wally Atkinson expects to make Telebuses available to 60,000 citizens by the end of the year and to provide citywide coverage...
With both squads on their feet chanting "Go, go, go," and the crowd screaming hysterically, Harvard's Fred Mitchell and Penn's Bob Atkinson took the blocks. Mitchell false started. But finally the race began, with Mitchell giving the Crimson a slight lead going into the second...