Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What some people want to do is write letters to companies, call in speakers, and spend a lot of time on the issue," John Gilbert '80, a Mather representative, said yesterday. "I see it (the Engelhard library issue) as an issue that can certainly be discussed without extensive committee forming and such nonsense...
...actors play their parts well, some more than others. Ustinov is fine as the supersleuth, but you wish he'd stop taking offense so often for being called French, not Belgian. Still, that's the screenwriter's fault more than Ustinov's. Niven is the quintessential unflappable Englishman, Bette Davis is right at home as a rich old bitch, and Chiles is a fine wealthy corpse. Mia Farrow is convincingly half-crazy, as usual. Some of the characters are drawn a little woodenly, and the script is nothing much to speak of. But then, neither is the Christie original...
...thought to myself, why should I be so ruthless on the Dartmouth people? Why should I call them farmers just because the zip code of Hanover, N.H. is FIEIO? Why should I criticize their high school addiction to beer? Why should I harp on their school's incredible inferiority complex towards Harvard, Yale, New York, the Bronx, and Staten Island too? Why should I snicker about the school's female population, which, not counting the women who work in the dining hall, has yet to reach three figures? Why should I dwell on the fact that their football team suffers...
Harvard students joined a nation-wide call for the boycott to protest Nestle's marketing practices in underdeveloped countries...
...obstruction call in the Harvard penalty area set up an indirect kick fifteen feet from the goal. Only sloppy URI play prevented a score...