Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capital letters: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING. Films that cannot fail do so, disastrously. "We're home," Richard Zanuck once cabled his father Darryl after a movie preview. "Better than Sound of Music." The object of this enthusiasm was Star!, which Goldman describes as "the Edsel of 20th Century-Fox." Success is equally impossible to foresee; the author rehearses the litany of studios that said no to Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost...
...point, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker drew Kasten into his office for a scolding. Kasten began to weaken, but said he would have to talk strategy with Jesse Helms, the ultraconservative North Carolina Republican. There were Senators who suspected Helms was aiding Kasten just as the fox helped the gingerbread man, i.e., Helms was really out to kill the jobs bill. President Reagan had vowed to veto the bill if the rider reached his desk as part...
...current preferential lottery system was thrown into question last year by a study revealing significant differences across the Houses in the academic performance, athletic participation, and racial composition of residents. Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 voiced concern that some Houses fell short of the 'microcosm of the College" ideal envisioned for each House when the House system was founded in the early 1930s, and some administrators began talking about restructuring the housing assignment system...
...officials speculated as to when and whether substantive changes in the lottery might occur, but Fox says the issue is unlikely to go away entirely. "I'm one of those people not entirely content with the present system," he says. "I'm wondering if there are some solutions we haven't considered...
Over the past decade, with a slight alteration in nomenclature, the new organization has evolved into the current Harvard Neighbors. The group has also gained strength by retaining a permanent administrator--Jane M. Williams '51. In addition, the Neighbors also have a board of directors whose ranks include Judy Fox, wife of Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59; Nitza Rosovsky, wife of Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky; and Roberta Wilson, whose husband is James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government...