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...symbol than a bird. It was celebrated by the Egyptians as the bird of the sun, the lion of the sky. It was known to the Greeks as the emissary of Zeus, and blamed in their legends for the death of Aeschylus -an eagle, the story goes, mistook the bald head of the dramatist for a stone and dropped a turtle on it. It is most familiar to Americans as the heraldic symbol on the U.S. Seal of State. But the real-life eagle beggars all symbolic descriptions, and of all the species that survive, the most impressive...
...Here he is," said Basic, "the chairman of the board." The audience moaned. Out stepped Frank, lyric book in hand, looking a little bald. "Jump," said Frank, shoulders hunched, left hand flicking rhythm, right hand flicking mike. Saved by the lyric book when he forgot words, Frank sang a set of old favorites such as Get Me to the Church on Time, Street of Dreams and I've Got You Under My Skin. He spoke only once to Basic, "Cook, cook, cook, cook, baby, cook...
...told in University Hall, Harvard is very much like a prehistoric monster, with a rather under-developed central nervous system and many large ganglia called "departments," which control the activity of its extremities. The largest of these is History, chaired by Donald H. Fleming, professor of History, a bald bouncy expert on the American intellect...
...unhappiness of some, he sees 'em starkly. And in an age when news-vending is corporation business and journalists must learn to play the sycophant, Stone's bald outrage at the frauds of governments and men seems pretty strong stuff. (I remember the raised eyebrows last year as Izzy declined to equivocate on questions from a Kirkland forum: "Jimmy Hoffa? He's a lousy crook. Belongs in jail. . . . Dean Rusk? The kind of guy you grow at Harvard--a sophisticated, educated, cultivated big bag of nothing.") A subscriber's salvation is that the unfair, bull-headed way Stone maligns...
...from the press, while her Harvard hosts (representing Dunster House, Operation Match, and the Ad Hoc Committee to Bring V.A. to Harvard) elbowed each other aside. Then it was off to the Loeb for a rehearsal with John Lithgow '67, with whom she will read from Ionesco's The Bald Soprane and Chekhov's The Marrige Proposal at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Dunster House Junior Common Room...