Word: landon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...joined family firms, city clubs and the Republican Party. They became physicians, lawyers, teachers and bankers. One of the bankers, John Harsen Rhoades, wrote mournfully, "I am not a business man, nor ever have I been. I believe, instead, I should have been a poet-artist." Another, Hugh McKennan Landon, wished he had been an engineer or an architect. But for the most part, there were few agonized choices about careers...
...opening monologue; Carson's nervous tics (fiddling with his tie, drumming a pencil on the desk), which have provided grist for impressionists from Rich Little to Dana Carvey. The program has had moments of great theater, from Tiny Tim's wedding to Miss Vicki to Michael Landon's poignant last appearance to discuss his terminal cancer. But mostly the show has succeeded because of its cozy familiarity. Critic Kenneth Tynan once suggested that during the turbulent 1960s, Carson may have become "the nation's chosen joker because, in Madison Avenue terms, he was guaranteed to relieve nervous strain and anxiety...
...Department of Mathematics formally thanked the donor, Landon T. Clay '50, at a Friends of Harvard Mathematics dinner held in his honor last Tuesday...
...than they are on any other subject. When pre-election polls in New York and Virginia went awry last fall, the almost unanimous press query was, How could they have been so wrong? That question has plagued journalism since at least 1936, when the Literary Digest predicted that Alf Landon would become President of the U.S. A more appropriate question might be, Why do we so expect them to be right...