Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of the earlier gift, Harvard spokesmen asked Lippmann why he had chosen Yale over his alma mater...
According to Robert O. Anthony, an advisor to the Lippmann collection at Yale, Lippmann responded to Harvard's inquiries about the 1946 gift by saying "You never asked me for them and Yale did. It would be a great presumption for me to assume you wanted them...
...that line, he gave the show away. For Benny was never a great creator. Even on TV his gift was that of an actor who wraps himself in other people's material. His props were inflections, pauses and reactions. In his mouth, "Well!" could express a thesaurus of repartee; a Benny "Yipe!" could wring laughter from a stone. Benny might have enjoyed a film career as durable as Bob Hope's. As the Polish ham in Ernst Lubitsch's wartime comedy, To Be or Not to Be, the comedian gave one of the screen's classic...
...nostalgia. The hell with the past. I'm only concerned with how good my last show was, and how good my next two will be." Though he died at 80, neither he nor his jokes had ever really aged. It was part of Jack Benny's gift to make the number 39 appear eternal...
...seems ironic that Ireland should have given hostile England a series of witty literary geniuses while its gift to friendly America was Eugene O'Neill. Distrusting both people and words, O'Neill was an unlikely dramatist whose literal mind made him work out everything for himself. In his earlier plays he achieved repetitiveness, instead of the cumulative force of the late ones. A three-hour trifle in the O'Neill canon, Ah, Wilderness! was written in 1933. A comedy, it describes how, on July 4, 1906, 17-year-old Dick Miller (Richard Backus) began to grow...