Word: humes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would have been more damaging if he had left," said Ellen Hume '68, a fellow at the Institute of Politics and a Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. But she added that his statements will make it very difficult for Stockman to deal with Congress in the future...
...whole point probably is moot anyway, since photography solved much of Wordsworth's and Hawthorne's problem, and television may be the Final Solution for our newspaper nattering. Ellen Hume '68 Kennedy Institute Fellow...
...situations for your episodic comedy about American life on wheels, you get: cute hookers, more bickering couples than a Bronx highrise, a town that paints itself pink, an elephant on water skis, and some funny car crashes. In a large, bland cast (Beau Bridges, William Devane, Teri Garr, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), only Beverly D'Angelo stands out as an overripe woman who can't say no, and for whom "the International House of Pancakes is the one consistent thing in my life." The rest of this Freeway is like 107 minutes of bad road...
...Spain, still steamed that the royal couple were departing on their honeymoon cruise from the contested Rock of Gibraltar, stayed away as announced, but send a gift. The Rev. Ian Paisley, an Orangeman of the deepest hue, was dismayed that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, had been asked to say a prayer during the ceremony, and made his displeasure known in a rhetorical thunderbolt: "May God bless the Prince and his bride-to-be, but may God deliver the House of Windsor from the conspiracy of Rome to subvert the Protestant monarchy...
...Zimmermann telegram that pushed the U.S. into the first World War, and the letter General Douglas MacArthur sent Congressman Joe Martin from Korea indirectly attacking the Truman Administration, after which Truman directly attacked the general, and fired him. Truman of course wrote a splendid impulsive letter to Paul Hume, the Washington Post music critic, after Hume had savaged a concert of Margaret's. But the impulse was canny since Truman knew that every father in the country would be steaming on his side...