Word: corliss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much a Harvard tradition as Mr. Test, Frank Corliss '27 is not half so elusive. Students see him more often than they think, some on their way to and from classes, others when they decide to catch up on studying before hourlies. He's the Lamont Library book checker--the man who asks for your bursar's card as you rush to the reserve desk, and inspects your books when you leave the building...
...athlete of steel and iron with not a superfluous ounce of metal on it!" exclaimed William Dean Howells before the centerpiece of Philadelphia's International Exhibition celebrating our nation's 100th birthday. He was inspired to these words by the gigantic 700-ton Corliss steam engine that towered over Machinery Hall. When President Ulysses S. Grant and Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil turned the levers on May 10, 1876, a festive crowd cheered as the engine set in motion a wonderful as sortment of machines- pumping water, combing wool, spinning cotton, tearing hemp, printing newspapers, lithographing wallpaper, sewing...
Each member of the troupe of black actors, bereft of the necessary direction, compensates by latching onto one emotion that he is confident he can do well. Silvia Anglin (Felicity) clings to her range, Corliss Blount (Snow) to her bitterness. Felipe Noguera turns in a good performance as Archibald, staring at members of the audience with a fierce, chilling concentration. Rod Clark renders a marvelously subtle Diouf; his mask segments are precise and perfect. Michael Russell (Village) deals well with the most difficult part in the play; his character is almost totally reliant on feedback from others and the quality...
...fact, Corliss Lamont has taken such admirable stances for half a century it is hard to be rough with him. A biography might have established the distance needed between the man and his actions to evaluate his philosophical and ideological stances. Yet one does wonder whether such a work on such an untenured maverick would sell with the committees that parcel out tenure to the sort of people who would write such a book. Despite such problems of point of view, Lamont emerges as "warm and agreeable" as the Humanism he dotes upon. And most of all, he comes clean...
...humanist pamphlet titled "How to Be Happy--Though Married." Who is this latter-day Ben Franklin, anyway? Why is he trying to take a stance on every conceivable aspect of life in this world? How can anyone be "conversant," "critical," and "definitive" in more than the appointed intellectual niche? Corliss Lamont, yea even a Corliss Widener, who does he think...