Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...motion to abolish the title of instructor was also opposed by the Division of Engineering. Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, explained that "our people opposed the change because they felt it would degrade the status of the present assistant professors...
Parker, who replaced Harvey Love as the varsity coach after the latter's death in January, coached the freshman for the last two years, and at the age of 28, could be the youngest head coach of crew in the nation. A varsity oarsman at Penn for three years, Parker was twice national sculling champion, and represented the U.S. in the Olympic games at Rome...
...Girl Named Tamiko is a Panavision melting pot. British Actor Laurence Harvey, who was born in Lithuania, plays a half-Russian, half-Chinese photographer in Tokyo who wants to go to the U.S. France Nuyen, who was born in Marseille of a French mother and a Chinese father, plays Tamiko, a highborn Japanese girl who wants Harvey. Martha Hyer, who is as American as a mink-lined raincoat in July, also wants Harvey, and so does Miyoshi Umeki, an honest-to-Buddha Japanese, who plays a Ginza B-girl...
Surprisingly enough, beneath all the sukiyaki, Producer Hal Wallis has put together an entertaining little picture; the neon wetness of Tokyo streets and the misty watercolors of the countryside in the exterior shots lend a much needed credibility to the convolutions of the plot. Harvey wants a visa to the U.S. Hyer, as a receptionist at the U.S. embassy, is willing to expedite it, provided he comes to terms, her terms. Nuyen counters by finding work for him in Japan to prove that despite his Sino-Russian origins and his British accent, he has a future there. Hyer ripostes with...
France Nuyen makes one last try. It involves a weekend at Lake Biwa, a sort of Nipponese Grossinger's, where she has arranged for Harvey to shoot some pictures. With the rain pelting on the roof of the bungalow, she serves dinner on the floor, lets down her hair, and the background music comes to a crescendo. (The theme, mystifyingly, seems to be something that Composer Elmer Bernstein remembered from Composer Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story...