Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic shamus prefers a snub-nosed .38, made in the U.S.A. He is invariably single (Philip Marlowe was a bachelor until Chandler's last, unfinished novel; Lew Archer lives alone, as does Spenser, although Spenser keeps company with Susan Silverman, a compassionate shrink). He is also short of cash and careless about his clothing. He is a two-fisted drinker (even though James Crumley's Milo Milodragovitch goes for peppermint schnapps) and sometimes drops his guard long enough to reveal a flash of erudition (Marlowe has atrocious taste in socks but can quote Browning). Touches of class cater...
...neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars." He and his kin are cynical, terse and masters of an amiably menacing tone that echoes the classic response to insult of Owen Wister's The Virginian: "When you call me that, smile...
...polite backout backfired. The local and national media reported Harvard's decision not to award degrees as a direct blow to the President, a classic case study in Harvard Hates America--coverage which surely did not escape the attention of the White House's public relations department...
Others tend to the more eccentric and esotericin their quest for academic glory. Alek Keshishian'86, an Adams House resident, was one suchbuck-with-traditionster. He fulfilled the honorsrequirement for his special concentration(Literature and Film: Theory and Practice) byadapting Emily Bronte's classic novel of love goneawry Wuthering Heights for the stage...
...youngest children--ages six to nine--in the Grape Group will spend their evenings watching the classic movie "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," viewing mime and magic acts, and being entertained by a puppeteer. Their days will be filled with the Big Apple Circus, roller skating, bowling, museums, the zoo, and a special trek to Walden Pond...