Word: elam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elam Davies, 63. Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. In a time of laid-back preaching, Davies is a successful anachronism: a consummate, self-conscious and often florid dramatist of the pulpit. A transplanted Welshman with volatile eyebrows and a powerful Thespian gift, he is not a large man, but he fills the brooding gothic gloom of the Near North Side church with his resounding voice, as the late Dylan Thomas might if he were reading Yeats, or Richard Burton would if playing Hamlet. Like the poet Thomas, Davies grew up in Swansea, Wales. He claims that Burton patterned his style...
...What happens when a young high school teacher (Jeffrey Kramer) inherits an old family inn and dis covers that the handyman is Franken stein's monster? Nothing good. This show, an outlandish mixture of Saturday morning cartoon antics and campy horror movie references, has only one asset: Jack Elam's self-deprecating, sex-starved wheeze bag of a monster. Elam's unruly sea of a face makes the late George ("Gabby") Hayes look like Prince Charles. His comic delivery is in the joyful tradition of vintage vaudeville, but, alas, there is nothing for him to deliver. -Frank...
...exercises will include three speeches by students, the Latin Oration and the English graduate and undergraduate orations. This year is the first year since 1973 that all three speeches will be given. Thomas A.J. McGinn '78 will deliver the Latin Oration, Harry J. Elam '78 will deliver the undergraduate English Oration and Gregory Lipscomb will deliver the graduate English oration...
Thomas A.J. McGinn '78 will deliver this year's Latin speech. The graduate English speaker will be Gregory Lipscomb, and Harry J. Elam Jr. '78 will deliver the undergraduate speech...
...speeches are supposed to reflect one's personal experience at Harvard, Elam said yesterday. "Basically, mine is about love, my grandfather and Harvard. For me the speech is something very personal and allowed me to give more meaning to my grandfather's life," he said...