Word: hiltonization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS. Despite the talent and voice of Petula Clark, this adaptation of James Hilton's classic falls flat as a musical. But Peter O'Toole, as the beloved Mr. Chipping, gives one of the most subtle performances of his career...
...prelates and theologians alike warned that the bishops who sought a larger role in shaping church policy had better be prepared to share that power with priests and laity at home. Last week, as 221 members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met in Washington's Statler-Hilton Hotel, that prophecy proved correct. The Rev. Patrick O'Malley, 37, moderate president of the National Federation of Priests' Councils representing some 35,000 of the nation's 58,000 Catholic priests, proposed that the bishops turn over most of their conference's responsibilities...
...schoolmaster who imagines he is loved and trusted by his boys is, in fact, mimicked and laughed at behind his back," recalled George Orwell in Such, Such Were the Joys. James Hilton took the opposite view. The schoolmaster who thought himself mocked was actually loved. Orwell's essay may have been what the public needed to know. But Hilton's 1934 novel was what it wished to read. Goodbye, Mr. Chips rapidly passed from sentimental classic bestseller to sentimental classic movie. In the title role, Robert Donat won an Academy Award, and Mr. Chips achieved legendary status...
...show business veteran to replace financial man Polk, but his choice for the presidency, Herb Jaffe, a vice president of United Artists, turned the job down. Gregson Bautzer, the Los Angeles socialite lawyer who counts both Kerkorian and Aubrey among his clients, introduced the two men at the Beverly Hilton and recommended Aubrey for the job. Bautzer's sales pitch: "Jim Aubrey has a real good sense of smell about what the American public wants to buy for entertainment...
Weathermen have received a permit from the city for an early afternoon march from Chicago's Haymarket Square to Grant Park across from the Hilton Hotel. Weatherman leaders planned the next major action for Saturday becausethe permit makes it possible to rally in large numbers. Police began dispersing any gathering of even small numbers of radicals today and Thursday...