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...president of Radcliffe, Mrs. Bunting has been a favorable contrast to the present Harvard president. Where he is reticent and formal with students, she is relaxed. While he watched the 1969 bust at University Hall from his balcony with binoculars, she arrived at the scene and mingled with the students. When Pusey refuses to sign a letter of protest to the President, her name is usually near...
...monuments include Briggs Cage, Briggs Hall, an endowed chair, an oil painting in the Freshman Union, and a marble bust in the Faculty Room of University Hall (a bronze copy is enshrined at Agassiz...
Giving Action. Mellinger was working for a New York lingerie mail-order house in the late '30s when the notion first struck him that "there simply was not enough romance in the way of clothes. I was always making notes saying more bust here, more fanny there, less waist here." After the war, he picked Hollywood for home base and in 1947 turned out his first designs, using leering catalogue copy for emphasis...
...Leary is the wild-eyed, stoned-out leader of Cold Iron, a West Coast rock group. Trying to avoid a bust for obscene behavior, O'Leary holes up at the Malibu home of his screenwriter girl friend, Woody Hagen, whose house is kind of an intimate crash pad for the neighborhood freaks. Not a good deal happens after O'Leary's arrival, except that the gang gives a spying nark a tough time and both O'Leary and Woody stand to go to jail for a while. But they figure out a method to coast...
...took Meredith the better part of his life to catch on. Nevertheless, by the time of his death-May 18, 1909-he had come to a glorious Victorian sunset as the Sage of Box Hill. Almost stone-deaf, looking, in Virginia Woolf's phrase, like a ruined bust of Euripides, Meredith held court. When no one else was around, he talked to his dogs. In art, as in life, he was a nonstop talker, and it is the rhetorical, aphoristic Meredithian grand manner that finally puts off today's readers. Reading Meredith in quantity, Pritchett concedes, is like...