Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic clown tradition, Brooks claims that none of this has brought happiness-and he may very well be right. "Jim is a roller coaster," says Daniels. "He's up. He's down. You try to hang on and you see he's going in another direction." Like the Burt Reynolds character in Starting Over, the bearded Brooks, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lytton Strachey, apparently had a slow recovery from divorce. "I would go out on a date," he says, "and have difficulty breathing." But he finally had a soft landing into a second marriage, with...
...even that event will probably be transmogrified into comedy. For in Brooks' philosophy, laughter is the only effective painkiller available without a doctor's prescription. "If I were dying in a hospital of a terminal disease," says Taxi Star Judd Hirsch, "I would want Jim Brooks to come in and direct me on how to die. I'm pretty sure he would come up with something positive...
...more than a slap on the wrist. After all, these works "were products of serious scholarship, had respectable scientific underpinnings, and earned respect as useful contributions to the solution of current problems." Some people found them useful, anyway--state legislators held up these books as supporting "evidence" for Jim Crow laws. But Handlin excuses "the occasional racist slurs" of the 1940s and '50s, calling them "less troubling than the injustice" a few historians served earlier ethnic peoples by falsifying their history "to gratify the passions of their descendants...
...rest of last season Ost brought desperately needed stability to a sometimes porous Crimson defense. Playing in front of sweeper and captain Jim Langton, Ost proved himself not with desperation runs and sliding tackles but with careful, contained play. Using his head on the soccer field--both physically and mentally--Ost looked to be one of the mainstays of the Harvard defense for the next two years...
...lone Oriole run came in the bottom of the third when secondbaseman Rich Dauer tagged a Jim Bibby fastball for a bases-empty homerun...