Word: langdon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Culver joins Kennedy in the Senate and Rep. David R. Bowen (D-Miss.) is in the Congress with Beilenson. Updike and Lasch (freshman year roommates) are successful authors. In the academic world, there is Steiner, and George D. Langdon Jr. '54, president of Colgate University, as well as 74 professors, including three at Harvard: Shapiro at the Law School, Walter J. Kaiser, professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Phillip A. Kuhn, professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations...
...YORK IDEA by LANGDON MITCHELL...
...York Idea by Langdon Mitchell. Though this comedy of manners was first presented in 1906, it is by no means spavined with age. It is the genre itself that has disappeared. We have grown accustomed to situation comedy, sight-and-gag comedy and black comedy. But the last instance of a social comedy based on an assured upper class was probably Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, and that play is now 40 years old. Essentially, the New York idea is divorce and, slightly more scandalously, the notion that divorced couples can be amiable friends...
...Church (not Rome, but H-E) rounds out the weekend with a far less perfect, but still fascinating movie, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum! If you're interested in the Depression film, hit this. And if you're interested in Harry Langdon, hit this. And if you're interested in the musical comedy form, likewise. Rodgers and Hart did the music and lyrics, and the whole picture is done in talking rhyme, which you will either find maddening or charming. Wonderful montage touches from a usually staid director, Lewis Milestone. It's all right to confuse this with Hallelujah, because...
Brought up on the greatest artists of the silent screen--Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harry Langdon--Marcel Marceau was enchanted at an early age by the challenge of imitating the animate as well as the inanimate. He calls Chaplin his greatest inspiration: "To be capable of expressing a wealth of emotion in one look, one gesture, to be able to interpret the slightest nuance of the soul--was not that a prodigious ambition...