Word: clifton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PREPARED AT: Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N. J.; Clifton College, Bristol, England...
...Coward, like all great writers of comedy, was not just a funny man. He was a supreme realist, who saw the humor, or the absurdity, in most human situations. When his good friend Clifton Webb mourns over the death of his mother, Coward is, for instance, properly sympathetic. To his journal, however, he expresses his impatience: "Poor Clifton is still, after two months, wailing and sob bing over Maybelle's death. As she was well over 90, gaga, and had driven him mad for years, this seems excessive and overindulgent. He arrives here on Monday...
...weather prediction proves accurate, and on Christmas Day he writes: "[Clifton] has devoted a lot of time to weeping and telling very, very long stories about the various deaths of his various beloved friends. He retails these gruesome memories with a wealth of maudlin detail. How he first heard the dreadful news of their demises, how he reacted, how they were laid out, how the memorial services were conducted, etc. These slow, slow ramblings inevitably end up with Maybelle . .. and then he breaks down and sobs and we all gaze at each other in wild surmise. He admitted...
...Chicago-based Institute for Philosophical Research, formed the Paideia Group, a panel of 22 educators and scholars who held a series of conferences seeking a new approach to public schooling. Among the participants: former Columbia University Provost Jacques Barzun, Bard College President Leon Botstein, Editor and Critic Clifton Fadiman...
Exxon's stumbling in nonoil fields may stem in part from the inbred nature of its management. Many of the top executives, including Chairman Clifton Garvin Jr., 60, are engineers who have spent their entire careers at Exxon. Wall Street analysts have begun to wonder if these lifetime oilmen have the versatility to venture out of the petroleum industry...