Word: finches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back on his old-brick patio for lunch, and his wife Margaret, a good-looking woman he calls Boo, joined them. Kirbo, a devout member of the Christian Church, dropped his head and said grace. With his large hands and deep, soft voice, he seemed a little like Atticus Finch from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird-the wise, laconic, just man who knew exactly who he was and where he was. No matter what kind of Washington eminence he might become, or whether he decided to pick up his hat and coat and just get out of there, Charles...
...Ecumenical Liberation Army, joins them in a bank robbery, then helps them try to sell a film of the heist to a big TV network, to be shown on its Mao Tse-tung Hour. During the negotiations, which lead to the crackup of a venerable anchorman, played by Peter Finch, Mary Ann cries out, "It's not the money that's important, it's the principle." The principled girl is Kathy Cronkite, Walter's aspiring actress daughter. Cronkite, who was originally offered the anchorman role (CBS said no way), suggested that his old chum Lumet might...
...squeak-through victory against a patsy, either. Running against three serious opponents, Hayakawa achieved a comfortable eleven-point plurality over Robert Finch, 50, his principal adversary. Finch, once a close friend of Richard Nixon's, was California's top vote getter ten years ago when he won the lieutenant governorship. Later he served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration...
Japanese Analogy. Republican voters this year seemed unconcerned by his late coming to their party. If Hayakawa's campaign rhetoric was less than sensational, Finch's was downright dull. Hayakawa answered questions about his age with an allusion to his ancestral homeland: "Before World War II in Japan they killed off all the older politicians. All that were left were the damn fools who attacked Pearl Harbor. I think that this country needs elder statesmen too." If that rather strained analogy does not help, the age issue is reduced by the fact that he still tap-dances...
...Harris effort dies, Finch mused, "I don't know, maybe I'll go to law school somewhere." Then he shrugged. "What the hell, you know. I can always go back to driving a liquor truck...