Word: berge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still trying to figure this out," Harvard Captain John Green-berg said. "We were overconfident and we certainly didn't play as well as we did last week or the week before...
...Nice Berg: The Crimson will be hurt by the losses of Lux, Griffith, Long, Barnard, attacker Brad Raymond, and midfielder Chris Garvey. But they won't be the only ones missed. The Morgan Trophy, awarded annually to the person who has done the most for Harvard lacrosse, went to deserving team manager Stacey Berg. Sincere thanks to her and Assistant SID Julie Rice for their help this season...
...Scott Berg...
...malapropisms -- calling the French painter "Toujours Lautrec," asking some fellow schemers to "include me out" of a deal -- gained Samuel Goldwyn a perverse fame as the archetypal Hollywood immigrant mogul, crude and semiliterate. But as A. Scott Berg demonstrates in this readable, richly researched biography, Goldwyn was never an archetypal anything, except in his poor Jewish origins in Eastern Europe. Unlike the Mayers and Warners, he made relatively few films, and he never built a mighty empire with a huge star roster and an immense distribution network. He was the ultimate independent producer, with a compulsive need for autonomy...
...Berg's account, Goldwyn's radical self-reliance had something like the nobility of a tragic flaw. His two marriages were deeply troubled, and as a father he was sometimes cruelly distant. What sustained and transformed his life were his simple, almost innocent, aspirations. His movies at their tasteful, well-crafted best (Dodsworth, The Westerner, The Best Years of Our Lives) had the kind of polished literacy the immigrant lad could not himself command but could command others to produce on his behalf...