Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOMECOMING is a totally engrossing drama. Written sparely by Harold Pinter, directed tautly by Peter Hall, performed perfectly by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, it tickles one's humor while gnawing the instincts and scraping the soul...
...HAROLD NICOLSON: DIARIES AND LETTERS, 1930-1939, edited by Nigel Nicolson. The author was always near the center of the action at Whitehall, and he knew London's brilliant and beautiful people. There is rare immediacy to his diaries-faithfully jotted down every morning after breakfast for most of a decade...
...most exciting race of the evening, the Bear's junior butterflyer Harold Mugford scored the only Brown first place by nipping Harvard's Rich Tompkins in the last few yards...
...certain extent, the change in styles produced an improvement in quality. Better directors and writers were drawn to spy movies once they stopped being farcical exursions into the world of Ian Fleming. Michael Anderson directed and Harold Pinter wrote The Quiller Memorandum, easily the best of the lot. But more recently the Bond hacks have begun to get their hands in to the new field. Guy Hamilton, a hack if ever there was one, has directed Funeral in Berlin, a clumsy, convoluted, illegitimate offspring of The Ipcress File in which agent Harry Palmer, again played by Michael Caine, proves...
...that the moon was torn, Eve-like, from the earth's side; that the earth and moon condensed simultaneously, as neighbors, from the same blob of primordial dust; or that the moon was a planetary interloper accidentally captured by the earth's gravity. Says Nobel Laureate Chemist Harold Urey: "All explanations for the origin of the moon are improbable...