Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Karate Chop. Get Smart! began as a product of groupthink when Talent Associates saw The Man from U.N.C.L.E. rising on the ratings and shrewdly suspected that the Bondwagon had room for one more. They commissioned Old Pro Mel Brooks (The 2,000-Year-Old Man) and Young Pro Buck (TW3) Henry to hack out a script about a fumbling hero. Instead, Brooks and Henry decided to make him a bumbling zero. Brooks recalls, "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life. If a maid ever took over my house like...
...book reviewer, magazine editor, script doctor, playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night) and speechwriter to President Roosevelt. In this effusive biography, Critic John Mason Brown leans heavily on the lighter side. The reader hears all about Sherwood's sensational buck and wing, his low-keyed Algonquin witticisms, his red-eyed passion for high-stakes poker, model airplanes, and croquet in Central Park at $10 a wicket. Unhappily, Biographer Brown requires 386 pages to take his subject from 1896 to 1939; and there he stops, just as Sherwood's most interesting...
...fact, to reduce the issue to schematic terms, it was a matter of Buck trying to persuade Coolidge. Each man had varying traditions and forces influencing him, but broadly speaking Buck was for defending Furry, and Coolidge (and the Corporation) was initially unsure. It is the explanation of what caused the Corporation, Harvard's rich, conservative, remote administrators, to act in defense of a radical associate professor of Physics on the unfamiliar field of free speech which makes the case so fascinating...
Therefore, it was to be Coolidge, if anyone, who would swing the Fellows of the Corporation behind Buck in support of Furry. Son of an old Boston family, First Marshal of his class, Coolidge had graduated from Harvard Law School and entered the prestigious Federal Street firm of Ropes and Gray. Acting as head of the Fellows in place of the incapacitated Dr. Lee, he was responsible for all of the Corporation's official announcements as well as the ultimate form of its policy...
...Corporation reviewed Furry's testimony before the Velde Committee and attempted to set University policy. In this period three other matters impinged upon their deliberations. At the end of March the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security came to Boston and interrogated more members of the Harvard faculty. When18PAUL BUCK...