Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lions (the circus, presumably), basketball players, ice skates (Orr's?). Idle speculation as to the subjects of the photographs when the Red Line is extended and Harvard Square has its own new station. A college of caps and gowns. Perhaps? Or an arty shot of the Science Center? The ghost of Henry Kissinger? Or maybe the new Dunkin' Donuts which might someday be built on Boylston Street...
...ghost of NCAA Past continues to haunt the Harvard hockey team. For the third time in the past three tries, the Crimson squad has started with what has apparently been a solid lead, only to be spooked in the third period...
...contribution is Citizen Kane (1941), which stunned the film world with its remarkable cinematic control and invention and did for post-World War II cinema what D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation had done for cinema before the '40s." However, the old man's ghost soon walked again. By the later editions, Loynds' paean to Citizen Kane had vanished from the story on orders of the managing editor for "extreme editorializing...
...Ghost Town. Originally, 22 Washington aides followed Nixon to San Clemente, most of them still drawing their Government salaries. Concerned about their future, many have left. With the departure this week of another half a dozen, only five full-time aides will remain, including Personal Secretary Rose Mary Woods and former Nixon Speechwriter Franklin Gannon, who will help research Nixon's memoirs. He will draw a $34,000 salary. There will still be some 30 Secret Service men alternating duty in protecting the Nixons, but generally, lamented one departing secretary, "it will be a ghost town around here...
...pretty boy with a curving wrist and a swing in his gait." Modern art was unintelligible to the people. Yet, in the end, one wonders if the tribunal to which Benton submitted his work and attitudes was not some jury of average, sensual Midwesterners but rather the ghost of his father, a stumping, swilling, iron-throated Ozark Congressman whom he revered. "Dad was profoundly prejudiced against artists, and with some reason. The only ones he had ever come across were the mincing, bootlicking portrait painters of Washington who hung around the skirts of women at receptions and lisped a silly...