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...Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare is a chain smoker [Jan. 24]. Ho, hum-file Robert Finch under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...whatever comes out is a collage of jokes, not simply a collection. Lines fall disjointedly and still very much in unison; and the composite result is the Proposition's own Sgt. Pepper's Band. Like the Beatles, there are the songs and then there are the Beatles. While you hum the songs, you love the Beatles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Proposition | 2/10/1969 | See Source »

...Buckley also detected "the rhetorical blight" of Kennedy Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, who, Buckley claimed, first employed "those false antitheses which are substitutes for analytical invigoration: 'We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy' (ho hum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Lower Your Voice | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

First, Aiken complained of Harvard's large lecture classes. He said that he used to teach part of Hum 5, which had 500 students. Aiken explained that he stopped teaching the course because "lecturing at such a distance, psychological and physical, to 500 students, was not a way to communicate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henry Aiken Hits Pusey, Calls Harvard Unfriendly | 1/29/1969 | See Source »

...Burr, is no shining example of the playwright's art. But Producer-Director Joseph Papp of New York's Shakespeare Festival manages to make it bright enough to provide an evening of unusual interest. Barry Primus plays an eccentric loner with a father fixation who utters, "Huui, hum" in moments of distress. Two women, charmed by his innocence, try to change him, but he eludes them only to meet final disillusionment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 20, 1968 | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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