Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grade, there is still a certain ambiguity about the purpose of education for the elderly. Some of the new applicants have asked for such prospective courses as "Sex over 65" and "The Psychology of Dying," but others prefer simpler offerings like "Film Time: the Oldies but Goodies." Explains Mrs. Harriet Heesen, who has taken creative writing and whose grandson is enrolled at the same college: "I'm just doing what I enjoy. If I learn along the way, fine, but I'm going on 80, and who needs more education...
Screenplay by IRVING RAVETCH, HARRIET FRANK JR. and WILLIAM DALE JENNINGS...
...Died. Harriet McCormack, 87, wife of former House Speaker John McCormack; of heart disease; in Washington. Summing up his near-legendary relationship with Mrs. McCormack, who gave up a career with the Metropolitan Opera to marry him in 1920, the lanky Boston Democrat once said: "It's all very simple. We're what we were from the first time we met-sweethearts." Avoiding the Washington social whirl, they breakfasted together every morning, never spent a night apart. When she was stricken last year, McCormack refused to leave her side, and occupied an adjoining room at the hospital...
...cellophane, living on packaged illusions and self-destructive myths. They are hypocrites and moles. They are also a sad-funny, surreal-absurdist clan, whose like has not been seen on the U.S. stage since Edward Albee's The American Dream. The father is named Ozzie and the mother Harriet, which is a clue to the lowest level of the playwright's satiric intent and achievement...
...when he wore no straitjacket: "I was nobody's goddam father. I was nobody's goddam husband, and I could run-nobody could run the way I could run-run for the sun." That is pain distilled into compassion, a special gift of David Rabe's, Harriet (Elizabeth Wilson) is one of those mothers who likes to think that she only "lives for others"-as selflessly as a vampire bat. David's younger brother Rick (Cliff DeYoung) pops in and out of the house with a vacuous "Hi Mom, hi Dad; bye Mom, bye Dad" that...