Word: gladdings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person he has made miserable, his son, Jud (Robert Picardo), whom he abandoned in the divorce settlement. He amuses Jud with jokes and funny costumes, finds him a girl (Catherine Hicks), and smothers him with affection. But Jud, a 20-year-old fogy, refuses to shake the glad hand. "Mom said you once told Sonja Henie she was a great actress," he remarks in one of the play's best lines...
Many freshmen find that during their first year away from home they took the first steps crossing from the last stages of adolescence to adulthood. "It's a passing phase," says Katherine M. Elliot '81. "I'm glad to have had the experience of living in the Yard, and I'm glad it's over...
Tutorials were an important part of Fogel's program. "President Lowell had just introduced tutorials in the '20s," Fogel observed, adding that he was glad to see they were still part of the curriculum...
...other things, the African policy provides a vent for the pent-up energies of young Cubans faced with a stagnating economy and limited employment prospects at home. On a recent visit to Havana, TIME Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin was told by a Cuban air force reservist: "I will be glad to help in Africa, to help our brothers finish off neocolonialism and racism." Others are less enthusiastic but too prudent to disagree. Said one university student: "I have friends who know that some Cubans have been killed over there. But I would be afraid...
...bridal couple also stumble across some unforgettable double entendres from Mae's old pictures: "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better," and the immortal "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?" There are some new ones too. When her husband turns out to be a British spy, bigger, someone says, than 007, she sighs, "I never got a chance to take his measurements...