Word: cavett
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Yale has undergone a cultural transformation. Its response to the trends of the Sixties has finally put it on the map. "Yale Chic" bombards the public everywhere. Its heroes--Brewster, Reich, Segal, Coffin, Cavett, Doonesbury--have become nationwide personalities through the bestseller lists, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, late-night talk shows and daily comics...
...between Lieut. Colonel Anthony B. Herbert and the U.S. Army (TIME, March 22) continues at a level of light skirmishing and enfilading fire. After repeated requests for permission to make a second appearance on the Dick Cavett Show, Combat Hero Herbert finally got an O.K. from his commanding officer, Colonel Tom Reid, five minutes before the taping was scheduled to begin eleven miles away. Cavett instead reran the earlier program, in which the Korean War's most decorated hero told of his demotion and disgrace when he reported instances of war crimes in Viet Nam. Early next morning, Herbert...
...anything, Electric Company wit may be a bit precocious for second-graders, since the head writer, Paul Dooley, is an alumnus of the satirical Second City theater troupe and one member of his staff has just arrived from the Dick Cavett Show. It is even now apparent that an appearance on Electric Company is going to be the chic guest gig of 1971-72, just as a cameo spot on Batman was the kick of the late '60s. Top comics like Mel Brooks, Bob and Ray, Tom Lehrer and Victor Borge have all signed up to do the show...
That protean public performer, Norman Mailer, 48, shuffled through three two-minute rounds with former Light Heavyweight Champion José Torres on TV's Dick Cavett Show. After Mailer got his breath, Cavett brought up the subject of the brain damage boxers sustain in the ring compared with that of writers at the bar. Mailer was predictably glad to expound from experience. "The brain damage I suffered here just now," he said, "is far less than I suffer after a night of heavy drinking. My brain isn't as good as it was years ago, but I didn...
After Satchmo. Success there led to an offer to appear on the Dick Cavett Show. That fell through. Enrico's current engagement at Manhattan's Inner Circle came next, as well as a number of tapings for television appearances before the family heads back to England -and school...