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...Harvard audiences really react," he said. "They stamp their feet, boo, whistle, and write letters. Their reaction to a Walt Disney film, for example, would be entirely different from most of the nation...

Author: By Rand K. Rosenblatt, | Title: Owner of Brattle Theatre Applauds Sophistication of Harvard Audiences | 2/2/1966 | See Source »

...eleven and wanted to know how it came out"; the majority are meeting the movie Batman for the first time. In either case, the reaction varies in pitch from light snickers to Neanderthal roars. Audiences giggle at Veteran Overactor J. Carroll Naish's portrait of Dr. Daka, boo the opening episode's racist slurs: "A wise government rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs." But by the time Batman lies trapped in a pit with knife blades converging on him, the audience stops laughing, starts chanting: "Kill! Kill! Kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Return of Batman | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

Morey, morey, fairy story, boola, boola, bah! Hmmph, mmph, wmmph, lymph dee doo dah. Bulldog, wooldog, fooldog, boo. Brewster rooster, roister doister, down the oyster, in the sea. You see, Pusey, we see VC, that's why we see victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memento Morey | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

...boom bah, yippeda, yippeda, yipe. Yo ho heave ho, bibbedy, boppety, boo poop be doo dah. Zippy poo bang wow joo gee pow, pow pow, pow. Yap, sap, flap, trap, blap, bongada bongada, boo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memento Morey | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

Unfortunately for Biff, his peek-a-boo antics did not go unnoticed. Karandas Nathasingh, instructor in Indian Studies, on his way to the Biology Labs to meet a fellow countryman for lunch, caught a distinct glimpse of the vacant-faced young man lurking behind the statue of John Harvard. Karandas weighed over 350 pounds, and unlike most fat men was of an exceedingly peevish disposition. "Someone," Karandas's mind registered, "is staring at me. This is intolerable. Worse than that, impolite. Has he never seen a fat Indian before?" With that, the Indian increased his speed and flew past Hunt...

Author: By C. Lewiss, | Title: Biff Bundie: The Circle of Seven | 5/11/1965 | See Source »

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