Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee on Educational Policy has decided to admit some 20 upperclassmen who have already taken a Gen Ed course to Hum 4, even if the course they book was Hum 8, a survey of dramatic taught by Seltzer and William Alfred, professor of English, until two years...
...pays St. Louis' Bob Gibson $40,000 a year, but that doesn't mean he has to make it complicated. "I can't stand heehawing around," says Pitcher Gibson, 29, "studying the catchers' signs, staring at the hitters - all that jazz. My philosophy is to hum it in there, baby, and let's find out who's best - them or me." Other pitchers play around with windups, curves, sliders, screwballs and such. Not Gibson. He uses hardly any windup at all, simply rears back and fires-with a great paroxysm of flailing arms...
John H. Finley Jr. Eliot Professor of Greek Literature and a professor of Hum 1, outlined some of the "special cases" which will require restricted enrollments. The new Hum 4, for example, plans to produce a play at the Loeb as part of its course work, and therefore can accommodate only a limited number of candidates...
...courses selected for pre-registration are Humanities 1, 6, and 4 (the revised version of Hum 8), Natural Sciences 5 and 6, and Social Sciences 2. Other lower-level courses, for which the Administration does not anticipate any special crowding problems, will be open to regular enrollment at Fall registration...
...core of teen-age ambivalence when she half proudly, half sorrowfully apologizes to her beau for passing a final exam: "I got 75. I'm sorry, I had pressure from my parents. I had to." Later, squatting on a deserted subway platform late at night to strum and hum folksongs, the two embrace all of a troubled generation's inchoate longings in one full, quiet moment. At such moments Nobody Waved Good-Bye conquers its simple ideas and tangled verbiage with cool cinematic assurance, turning a problem play into a poem...