Word: dame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feet and screams: "You middle-class black bastard, you liver-lipped white man, Uncle Tom Big Lip!" In a black rage, he slugs her and then vomits all over the subway car his lifelong bellyful of hatred against the white man and all his works. When he subsides, the dame stabs him dead...
...nation's college students are against their country's stance in the Viet Nam war. Notre Dame's senior class voted to give its annual Patriot of the Year award to General William Westmoreland, 52, the U.S. commander. "You have done me a great honor," Westmoreland wrote from Saigon. "But as you suspected, my schedule will not permit my attendance to accept." And then some of the Fighting Irish took the more publicized view. As soon as the winner was chosen, the student weekly Observer started potshooting: "All that can be said of the selection is that...
N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, produced by Sir Laurence Olivier and featuring the original Chichester Festival Theater cast: Dame Sybil Thorndike, Sir Michael Redgrave, Rosemary Harris, Joan Plowright, Max Adrian, and Olivier himself...
Other Catholic schools have similar plans. Last week the Congregation of Holy Cross, which operates the University of Notre Dame, reorganized the school's governing board; under the new setup the six priests who currently make up the board will be balanced with six laymen. At the same time, the Holy Cross Fathers approved another mixed lay-clerical board for the University of Portland, which they also control. Cleveland's John Carroll University is working along the same lines, and New York's Fordham University, which has been experimentally allowing its 36-member lay board of advisers...
...food fortune of well over $100 million, a celebrated hostess and philanthropist, an avid horticulturist, antiquary, boxing enthusiast and square-dance fancier. In Palm Beach (where she winters), the Adirondacks (where she summers) and Washington, D.C. (where she spends the spring and fall), Mrs. Post is a grande dame of high society. "Everything she touches turns to beauty," says Lady Bird Johnson...