Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tastefully dressed in a pale green turtleneck, matching jacket and slacks, Taoka, who is recuperating from a heart ailment, played the solicitous host to perfection. He offered his caller a delectable piece of green melon and then launched into a professorial discourse on social ills. Many of his followers, he said, were low-caste buraku-min (TIME. Jan. 8), social misfits who had suffered from discrimination. Since the government offered no help for them. Taoka had taken on the responsibility. 'What I need now,' he declared, 'is the services of some scholars in finding ways and means...
Appearing on NBC's Tonight Show, Truman Capote told Television Host Johnny Carson that he and his friends were playing the most wonderful new game. What was it? Johnny asked. Well, said Truman, you list as fast as you can the 25 most boring people you know. The trick is to name people everyone else thinks are fascinating. Truman's top bores: First, Howard Hughes, because "who cares about his reclusion, his plane flights, his hiding and his money." Second, Aristotle Onassis, because "all he is doing is sitting in the corner of a nightclub thinking of ways...
Maybe Saravelas can come up with a host of positive comments. But there are enough negative ones turning in the minds of Cambridge kids, parents, current and former staff, (as well as private and public agency personnel), to offset the forces he can muster--at least in number and significance, if not in political power and prestige. Until I'm proven wrong, I'll have to go with the assessment of Sister Mary Griffin of Croagh Patrick's, a well-known community worker...
...favorite in the 20th running of the triangular meet. The Tigers, however, are strong enough to challenge, and Harvard must avoid any sort of letdown in order to take its 13th win in the series and its tenth out of the last twelve. Yale will probably be an idle host...
...93rd Congress gathered last month, its effort to achieve equality with the Executive Branch has developed into one of the nation's most significant political questions. Last week members of Congress assembled to debate the question themselves at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery. Their host was Time Inc. which celebrated the 50th anniversary of TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine with a dinner honoring Congress and a symposium on "The Role of Congress." Similar regional discussions had been sponsored earlier in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles, bringing together Senate leaders and congressional scholars (TIME cover...