Word: hums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything aboard the ship is archaic: on windless days, the steel-hulled Eagle, built in 1936, vibrates with the hum of her 728-h.p. diesel engine. Power winches, not able-bodied seamen, crank the windlass to hoist anchor. In the communications shack, the latest electronic gear helps plot the ship's position. On the foremast, a slowly rotating radar scanner keeps an electronic...
...James Shepherd, "stars are not only born in a night but burn out in a night. Producers consider themselves lucky if they wind up a picture with enough money for a new car, a new mistress and a bottle of Scotch." With stars demanding six-figure salaries, a ho-hum Hindi movie costs around $500,000. Production is sluggish, often taking a year...
...education while a child in Mexico and then as a more advanced student of the classics in Spain and Italy, taught Barba-Martin to "enjoy literature as fiction and also as thought." He said he has "definitely found much greater ability" here among the students in his section of Hum 55 than he did at either Tufts or the University of Massachusetts. And Barba-Martin feels he must work harder, especially on the "style of the prepared lecture," before he is ready to teach. Like his thesis, Barba-Martin predicts that his teaching will be a "modest but necessary contribution...
Everyone in Hum 103 or Ec 10 knows the advantages of sitting in the front row. The Harvard team certainly tried to be "a leading force," other Harvard groups in other spheres tend to do the same. The competition was good-natured, and only those who volunteered slept outside at the Capitol. Two weeks ago, hundreds of students rose early or camped outside Byerly Hall to try for 200 clean-up jobs; it seems hardly more unusual that few students would do the same at sales school to better hear and see presentations which would help determine their success over...
...Cotton Blues Band. Sanders Theater, here. May 28, 8 p.m. They're even trying to bring concerts here to make you go so you don't study for your exams. Don't let this one fool you. After the concert is over, you'll wish it had been a Hum 103 lecture...