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...accordance with a City council resolution passed last month. Cambridge Water Department officials notified Harvard Wednesday that water would be shut off yesterday. But Harvard officials delayed notifying House residents until early Thursday morning, said Harvard Spokesman Peter Clancey. While efforts were made to find an alternative method of installation...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: South House Loses Water For Six Hours | 11/5/1982 | See Source »

...precisely such gossip that lubricates Vidal's fictionalizing of revisionist history. The novel's form is a memoir within a memoir, somewhat mechanical but well-suited to Vidal's didactic purposes. Only two characters are pure invention. William de la Touche Clancey is a mischievous and gratuitous bit of satire whom followers of Vidal's TV errors and trials should have little trouble identifying. Charlie Schuyler is, according to the author, a young opportunistic journalist "based roughly on the obscure novelist Charles Burdett." This is a flimsy bit of deception. Burdett was so obscure a novelist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Foundling Father | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

...years wrestling with his decision. President Stuart LeRoy Anderson of the Pacific School of Religion observes that many applicants are "dissatisfied with whatever fields they are in because they deal only with materialistic things. They would rather give their lives to investigating the significance of life." The Rev. William Clancey, once an assistant U.S. attorney in San Francisco, says: "I loved the law, but I knew something was missing. After one martini, the idea would come into my head, but I kept pushing it out." He eventually stopped pushing, and at 35 began studying for the Episcopal priesthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preaching: Answering the Call After 30 | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...game last night was rough enough to force six players out because of personal fouls called on them, and Clancey, Holy Cross guard was taken out with an injured knee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRUSADERS FALL BEFORE FIGHTING CRIMSON QUINTET | 2/9/1928 | See Source »

...Clancey and Morris, right guard and left forward, respectively, on the Purple team form a strong offensive combination, and were the main-springs of the Holy Cross attack which gave the Crusaders a 30-14 verdict over the strong Dartmouth team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRONG CRUSADER QUINTET TO MEET CRIMSON TONIGHT | 2/8/1928 | See Source »

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