Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were incapable of hero worship. Those we most admired, in fact, were not real heroes but the anti-heroes of fiction or film: the Jake Barnes of The Sun Also Rises or the Humphrey Bogart of Casablanca. Begin a scene from that movie, and almost any film fan of our generation can finish it with appropriate gestures and flourishes. ("What brought you here?" Claude Rains, the good guy-bad guy Vichy captain asks Bogart. "My health. I came for the waters." "What waters? We're in the desert." Bogie shrugs. "I was misinformed.") As Journalist David Halberstam, 36, puts...
...engineers, two Congressmen, a doctor and a journalist -have disembarked through an airlock, the ship frees itself from the station, drops back toward earth and re-enters the atmosphere at a sharp nose-up angle that quickly slows it down. Like the mother ship, it then fires up the fan jets hidden in its tail and flies to a landing on an ordinary airport runway...
...eyes glinted, but the face had an unlined, almost feminine softness. The voice was as warm and resonant as a cello. Burton, who knows role playing when he sees it, was at first unconvinced by the proffered friendship and admiration. But eventually he enrolled Nichols in the Richard Burton fan club; it was an attachment that would one day pay off handsomely for Nichols...
...pretty much fills up the after noon," he said. "You know, I get up at 2:30, take a shower until three, then sit in front of the fan in my room for an hour...
Another Class of '20 alumnus, Richard Hallowell, said he is an avid Harvard sports fan. He has seen every Harvard-Yale game since 1908. Hallowell said he does not like the way most College students are dressed, with jocks being the exception...