Word: howard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School cafeteria, Harkness Commons--is not a dramatic disaster. Do It Yourself, a now-famous Lowell House production, relied no more heavily on College jokes than Holmes relies on the Law School, and was only funnier because its humor was directly connected to undergraduates' lives. Howard Katz, Robert Noto and Ivan Orton have come up with a book that pokes fun at every aspect of Law School life, and one leaves with a sense not of frustration at having missed the point, but of having glimpsed an entirely different University subculture. Which--particularly if you're interested in going...
...mawkish romances (A Farewell to Arms), pseudo-profound he-man heroics (For Whom the Bell Tolls) and farragoes of exotic drinks, sports and angst (The Sun Also Rises). The Hemingway adaptation with the most spark left in it today is To Have and Have Not, in which Director Howard Hawks tossed out most of the original novel and wrenched the rest into a racy adventure yarn around Bogart and Bacall...
...breast. But except for George C. Scott in the leading role, it attempts to do this without anything approaching Hemingway's gifts, tarnished and erratic though they were toward the last. It remains an attempt-earnest and labored. After watching it, one is tempted to say: Come back, Howard Hawks...
...Howard D. Fisk, Jr., supervisor of Central Shops in Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday snow removal would proceed as usual. "We don't know how many men or how many machines it will take, since there is the possibility of additional snow Sunday," he said...
...semi-retirement at Sagamore Hill, the family estate in New York. His random reminiscences of hunting and politicking are interrupted by a visit from three old political allies (all invisible, of course), asking him to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination against his own handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Taft has strayed from the "progressive" Rooseveltian principles he once propounded, stoking Teddy's competitive fires for one last, glorious battle. But the decision to abandon the comforts of private life and re-enter the "arena" does not come easily for Roosevelt, who resorts to a chronological review...