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Gill says one of his Leverett students had interned for President Lyndon B. Johnson, and there was a good chance LBJ would agree to speak at the House senior dinner. ("Not even [famed Eliot House Master] John [H.] Finley ['25] could've topped that," Gill laughs...
Long ago, the humorist Finley Peter Dunne ("Mr. Dooley") described being Vice President of the U.S. as "a sort of disgrace, like writing anonymous letters." Talking to oneself is cousin to that. It seems a Richard Nixon sort of thing to do. If Nixon did not actually talk to himself, he gave the impression that he did. For all his reputation for covertness, Nixon's real problem was his inability to conceal the darkly busy workings of his mind--the wheels turning, the eyes darting. You could almost hear him talking--a subliminal tape--even if the words were...
Baltimore (Erickson 3-1) at Anaheim (Finley...
...Hunter, a professor at City University of New York (CUNY) Law School, explained how the Supreme Court case emerged from the denial of NEA grants to four performance artists, including Finley, in 1990 due to the content of their work...
...case, known as Finley v. National Endowment for the Arts, was presented on March 31 to the Supreme Court and is currently pending...