Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, Vonnegut's messages emerge from beneath the overplayed Harvard motif and a typically bizarre plot. Starbuck's biggest claim to fame, for example, amounts to a piddling job in the Nixon administration as the President's Special Advisor on Youth Affairs. His office, hidden in the dank basement of the White House, becomes the resting place for large sums of illicit Watergate pay-off money, and when the break-in and cover-up arrests are made, he is duly escorted to a minimum-security prison in Georgia--undergoing the pains of prison minus the Watergate infamy...
...fair amount of imagined 'typical daily life' and arrive at the typewriter with the ready made historical novel. Thus we learn how Freud puts on his shirt, or how Lincoln liked his eggs. Our interest in these quotidian events lies mainly in the protagonist's eventual fame or historical dimensions...
Cornell relies on a powerful running game to cover for a somewhat suspect passing attack, and the Big Red strength--including Dick Clasby Jr., son of the outstanding Harvard Hall of Fame athlete-will run up against a Crimson defense that is in the Top Ten nationally against...
...only man in the baseball and football halls of fame...
...What Hall of Fame outfielder endorsed a soft drink which bore his name...