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...retainer to the President of the United States, all doing their best to run each other over and muddy the storyline--finally mesh together in Hollywood style. Perhaps the setting makes the book more interesting than it really is: having set his story in Cambridge, Reid takes a name-dropper's perverse delight in alluding regularly to parts of the Harvard campus, which he invariably misspells. It is simply fun to sit back and feel superior to the author because you know that there is only one "1" in Eliot House...
With apologies (not completely convincing) for taking in so much so fast, Durrell inspects Sicily-its history, people, temples, flowers. He pauses for a charming lecture on Empedocles (Durrell is an intellectual name-dropper). He loves sudden transportations over centuries. One afternoon the bus comes upon a serenely classical car crash: "The occupant of the sports car was a handsome blond youth, and he was lying back in his seat as if replete with content, with sunlight, with wine. The expression on his face was one of benign calm, of beatitude...But the little man whose stethoscope was planted inside...
...doing. But I pulled this Charlie Chaplin hoax my senior year and announced a lecture in the chapel by the famous comedian Charles Chaplin. The poster we made up announced that the lecture was arranged by this professor, the man we were gunning for, who was a great name-dropper in the field of theater. Hundreds of cars came. It was a mess and got totally out of hand. They said they would throw out the students who did it. I knew the dean very well and I told him I did it and he told me to keep...
Some Action. One secret of Trippet's success was his skill as a name dropper. Lawrence Kartiganer, a partner in a Beverly Hills law firm that invested in Home-Stake and suggested it to Benny, Williams, Director Mike Nichols and Singer Bobbie Gentry, says that Trippet, a man of some aplomb, would let slip "oh, casually" the names of celebrities he had already signed up. Says Kartiganer: "When investors of the caliber of the top executives at the First National City Bank have a piece of the action, there is a tremendous psychological effect." (Wriston says that First National...
Colson's sudden decision to plead guilty to a felony charge instantly raised the question, what was he up to now? Columnists Evans and Novak speculated that he was retaliating for the unkind things said about him in the transcripts. Nixon had called him a "name-dropper" who "talks too much." The President also said that he "may well have been the triggerman" of the Watergate breakin. H.R. Haldeman characterized him as "an operator in expediency." Others last week felt just the opposite-that Colson's move was only the most devious of his many political ruses, this...