Word: finley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strides "Big Daddy." This time he is Boss Finley (Sidney Blackmer) a demogogic Southern politician, and he wears a yellow dressing gown instead of Burl Ives's white one. The first Big Daddy psychologically emasculated his son; this one threatens Chance Wayne with physical castration. It seems that Heavenly, the Boss's daughter, contracted a disease from Chance years ago and had to have a hysterectomy. In scenes of bogus dramaturgy, Boss Finley and his children snarl revelations at each other (e.g., he keeps a mistress) that should have been common family knowledge for years. Toward play...
...Masters of Houses which use the Central Kitchen were relatively uninterested. David E. Owen '27, Master of Winthrop, declared, "my indifference is almost monumental; I'll leave the eloquence to the Masters of Adams, Dunster and Quincy Houses." The only comment from John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, was I'm not interested in food...
...always the most successful, has been the parade of House visitors. In the past year these have included Robert Frost (Adams), T.S. Eliot (Eliot), Robert Oppenheimer (Lowell), Chester Bowles (Winthrop), to name only a few. But, even if a House manages to snare a "big name" in what Master Finley calls the "celebrity race," it has not necessarily scored an educational triumph. Under the pressure of crowded schedules, well-known writers and statesmen can not stay as long as they--or the Masters--would like. "It takes a Harvard bunch four or five days to get to know anyone," observed...
...John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, said that he would like "to spend more time in the Classics Department." Finley will continue lecturing in Humanities 2 when the course resumes in 1960, but Bullitt is not sure whether he will return. "There is a possibility I may continue," he remarked yesterday, "but no decision has been made...
...John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, suggested that a special alumni program might be arranged in the Common Room to discuss changes that have taken place. "For some time we have had small meetings with graduates who arrive before reunion activities," Finley added...