Word: franklin
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...true that the temptation to use food as a political symbol is bred in the bone. William Henry Harrison won the presidency by calling himself "the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider." Franklin D. Roosevelt served hot dogs to the King and Queen of England...
Briefly, in the early '30s, gays were familiar screen types: "pansies" (often played by Franklin Pangborn) for comic relief and, more heroically, bisexual heroines (incarnated by Garbo and Dietrich) who looked thrillingly glamorous in their tuxedos and bachelor togs. That was old Hollywood's highest compliment to a woman--that she acted and thought like a man--just as new Hollywood accepts films with transvestites, men who act and think like women. In the '50s, gayness could be viewed as a social disease (in Tea and Sympathy) or with oblique rapture (in the torrid gaze of Stephen Boyd's Messala...
Innocent publicity isn't what it used to be. There is talk of Ad Board action; Franklin Steen, the Director of Computer Services, categorically waves FAS policy around like a baseball bat; the Chair of the FAS Committee on Information Technology predicts apocalyptic results: that an advertisement "can bring the system to its knees...
MAGIC JOHNSON'S SMILE IS MORE THAN warming. It tells me that there is a ray of hope that we are intelligent people after all. Welcome back! PETER FRANKLIN Sudbury, Massachusetts Via E-mail...
Thomson Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez will speak about how to apply children's stories to business styles. Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin will speak about quarks. And Associate Professor of History and of Social Studies James Goodman will give a speech titled "Stories of Scottsboro and Other Stories...