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...motives, they flash aged but envenomed claws. Dicey accuses the unmarried Mumbo of lesbianism, wonders why Sheikie has no children. Mumbo wonders why Sheikie never made it as a dancer, accuses her of social climbing. Both Mumbo and Sheikie are suspicious of Dicey's relationship to her dusky butler...
...Bonnie Butler, the Institute's Assistant Director of Research Grants, described the money as a Research Career Award, one of the Institute's "top drawer" projects for qualified scientists. She added that Harvard will receive $26,000 next year to support Skinner's work. The financing of the grant leaves his tenure position and University standing unaffected...
Only Dan Kirsch (foil) and Larry Butler (sabre) won as many as two bouts; Harvard took just one of the nine bouts in the epee...
...discarded husband and father of 29 years before turns up to meet his sons and resample a bit of the vocal and emotional hell that he and their mother can still give each other. Old rage rather than old age is their subject. Alan Webb, as an ancient butler, potters and poeticizes near life's exit with a funny and touching gallantry and even cheats incipient rigor mortis a couple of times...
Dunne still wrote warmly of Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Irish patriot Michael Collins, but he was harder on his enemies. When Nicholas Murray Butler joshed him about his weight, Dunne snapped: "Yes, my fat goes under my belt, but yours goes under your hat." At the 1916 Republican Convention, writes Dunne, "Henry Cabot Lodge would have given an eye for the nomination. Or perhaps that is going too far. Let us say he would have sacrificed his dearest friend for the honor...