Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Academy also spurned a movie that was at least as good as most of the nominees and left the others in the tinseled dust--John Huston's The Dead. This exclusion is utterly perplexing since there is almost invariably one bid for sympathy. After giving Oscars to Henry Fonda and Paul Newman more for distinguished careers than for dubious performances in their nominated roles, and after honoring Marlee Matlin with the best of intentions for what was an adequate performance, John Huston would seem to be an irresistible choice. A posthumous award to a beloved director directing his daughter seems...
With 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter, UVM had shrunk the Crimson's advantage to two. Harvard was left staring at an ugly image of itself, its offense dead, its defense embattled...
...polls has been accompanied by increased scrutiny by the press. The New York Times and The New Republic have both recently printed articles raising questions about his record and his positions. The Washington Post this past Sunday torturously went over Jackson's claim that he cradled the dead King in his arms. And Jackson's letter to Noriega has been publicized sufficiently enough perhaps to prevent him from winning Wisconsin...
...your page one article on the proposal of "honoring Confederates" in Memorial Hall (March 21, 1988), your writer, Mr. Troyer, cites "a proposal by an emeritus professor to add the names of Harvard's Confederate dead to the celebrated transept at Memorial Hall." As the emeritus professor whom Mr. Troyer consulted, let me correct him by saying that I have never urged commemorating the Harvard Confederate dead in the transept, properly consecrated to Harvard's Union dead. If, as was done in the Memorial Church for Harvard's German dead in World Wars I and II, the names of some...
...relevant to the Union forces. The condition is, indeed, laid down in the deed of gift by which the Alumni Association transferred Memorial Hall to the Harvard Corporation in 1878 that no memorial should be put into it inconsistent with its purpose of commemorating not only the Union dead but all Harvard men who served in the Union forces. But it does seem that after the lapse of more than a century, this condition might be waived, either by the Alumni Association or by legal action, to permit the installation of a memorial elsewhere than in the transept to recognize...