Word: fay
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Sociology was an academic stepchild and psychology a minor pseudoscientific discipline not much discussed in those days. It was history that held a paramount place in the curriculum. Those of us who took Sydney Fay's course in modern European history emerged imbued with the idea that the Germans were not solely responsible for the first World War, a revolutionary thought that we digested with a certain amount of skepticism. Our bible was the Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, which we read with a sense of the author's courage and valor that we all longed to emulate...
King Kong (RKO). A cinema producer (Robert Armstrong), his leading lady (Fay Wray), his first mate (Bruce Cabot) and their entourage visit a remote Pacific island to make a nature picture. The natives seize Fay Wray, tie her up as a sacrifice to their god, King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking trees and grunting...
...visitors took control again after safety Jack Shay stopped a Crimson drive by knocking down a Chuck Colombo pass at midfield--the first of several times the UMass secondary swatted away Harvard passes. As the Minuteman offensive line proceeded to blast sizeable holes through the defense, running backs Frank Fay and Richard Jenkins took turns with the ball, until Fay took a pitch from Simcone for a one-yard touchdown run with 4:04 left in the period...
There is a goofy nobility about these domestic scenes that leads one to ask: What do gorillas think about? Certainly not about making off with Fay Wray or Dian Fossey. Food, safety and building a nest for the night seem uppermost in those broad, sloping heads. Females in estrus have one thing on their minds: mating with their leaders who, in turn, worry about rivals. Kinship bonds are strong; encounters between unrelated groups can be bloody, and sometimes fatal to the young. Indeed infanticide occurs often enough to constitute a serious problem for the ape image...
Every year members of the Harvard 25th and Radcliffe 25th reunion classes are asked to donate any books they have written to two separate special exhibitions. The Harvard books are placed on display in Widener Library while the books written by Radcliffe class members are shown in Radcliffe's Fay House...