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...course assistant." In Bunny's own words, "Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand." It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer (ideally he should drool as well as lisp), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question, be careful to pick an assistant with ones yet more questionable, say a quickie doctorate from the University of Guatemala...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting Ahead on the Harvard Faculty--DeLoon's Handy Guide | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...London Lisp. The stuff in the bottles sparkled. The New York Times began to buy small pieces in 1963, in 1965 invited him to be its staff dance critic. For Barnes, the deadlines were lifelines; the city was home. "From childhood," he claims, "I had inhaled imported U.S. culture in films and drama. I was immediately Americanized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics: Overachiever | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

Well, almost. The supporting actor who was playing Clive Barnes in the early New York days was considerably different from the star who plays him now. In his first few months on the job, listeners to the Times radio station WQXR were astonished to hear a London lisp on the evening news: "Thith ith Cloive Bawneth, dawnthe cvitic of the New Yawk Timeth." A put-on, many decided. But the speech defect was real. The speaker, moreover, was as straight as a line of type. After shedding his first wife of ten years, Barnes married Patricia Winckley, a lithe balletomane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics: Overachiever | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

...course assistant." In Bunny's own words, "Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand." It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer (ideally he should drool as well as lisp), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question, be careful to pick an assistant with ones yet more questionable, say a quickie doctorate from the University of Guatemala...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DeLoon's Guide | 12/7/1968 | See Source »

...George Lucas, 23, of U.S.C., is a sci-fi chiller that looks at a cowardly new world where two varieties of humanoids, the "erosbods" and "clinicbods," wander through dark corridors and light-pierced concrete caverns in pursuit of the only truly human character, "THX" (pronounced with a lisp). A vision of 1984, it evoked in 15 minutes a future world in which man is enslaved by computers and TV monitors. Although portentous in theme, THX impressed the judges with its technical virtuosity: Lucas shot his future-oriented film entirely in present-day Los Angeles-much as Jean-Luc Godard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: The Student Movie Makers | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

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