Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wasn't often that Bentley got to cat outside the House. Of course, when they had held the Senior Dinner and the special dinner for the new sophomores he had been forced to go out to Leverett to eat. But he hadn't liked it; Bentley was essentially a homebody...
That was why it seemed so strange to everyone that night when he announced with obvious delight and excitement that he was planning to eat out. Not, not at a restaurant, of course not. At the Graduate Common, with some friends and a professor, he explained...
...that night, but nobody begrudged him his intellectual refreshment. There had been some good sense in what he said about inter-housing at Harkness and the Business School. If Harvard really were a university, and sometimes it was hard to tell, it might be fun to go over and eat with the graduate students. More than one who noticed Bentley's empty seat that night would have joined him at his dinner...
...Then for three days, we lay where we were. Nobody bothered with us. One by one the badly wounded died. We had nothing to eat. The strongest ones dragged themselves over to a nearby dugout and found a few cans of French rations. Finally ten Viet Minh doctors and orderlies appeared. They made tents out of parachutes and put us inside them. They had nothing-no medicine, no disinfectants. The surgeons performed operations without anesthetics. We heard our comrades screaming. Then to our astonishment the French doctors and orderlies were brought back. Miss de Galard came back...
...steady brilliance. His joy at finding Friday (James Fernandez) turns quickly into a sort of lordly Colonel Blimpism as he sets their relationship as that of master and servant. Then his performance be- comes electrically charged with fear when he suspects Friday may murder him in his sleep and eat him. The savage and the civilized man have a long and uneasy road before they reach the haven of friendship. Like Defoe's original work, the movie is a neat mixture of moralizing and adventure, but, fortunately, the moralizing is never pompous or the adventuring ever dull...