Word: halcyon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like an aging roue looking back on halcyon days, the House Un-American Activities Committee has tried to sanitize its image. It changed its name to the House Internal Security Committee in 1969 and made abortive attempts to revive lost vigor (convening hearings on such left-wing groups as the S.D.S.). But last week, in the best oldtime "I have a list" form, the committee released a compilation of "radical" speakers who have spread leftist rhetoric over American campuses during the past two years...
DEVORE came to Harvard in 1963 from Chicago via Berkeley, where he taught for a year in its "halcyon days-when they wondered when they would be as good as Harvard...
Junie (Liza Minnelli) is a wild young thing with a penchant for what may be restrainedly described as the wrong kind of guy. Her date asks her to strip for him in a cemetery and, after she has a good laugh about that, he tops off a halcyon evening by dragging her into a used-car lot and pouring battery acid over her face. Naturally she is scarred for life. She takes up residence in a dilapidated shack with two other freaks (as they flippantly refer to themselves). One is a crippled homosexual (Robert Moore) and the other a good...
...waiting for a bus in New York City, and Rats is primarily a conversation between two rats in a Harlem tenement. Accordingly, our conversation ranged from his comments on Morning, Noon, and Night, which he saw at the Loeb this Fall; his nervous militancy in politics; his not-so-halcyon undergraduate days at Harvard; and finally, his future plans, among which are the coming of The World's Greatest Plays (about the world's greatest hero) and his screenplay for The Strawberry Statement, the American entry to the Cannes Film Festival, adapted from James Kunen's articles...