Word: mulligans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same penalty cost Harvard a match, when the referee--John Mulligan--called Paul Padlak (160) on intentionally going out of bounds, giving F&M's co-captain Jim Clair a point and a 2-1 victory...
...John Sack (New American Library, $4.50), a racy and vibrant chronicle of an American infantry company's preparation for combat and its baptism of fire in Viet Nam; and NO PLACE TO DIE by Hugh Mulligan (Morrow, $5.95), a catalogue of the many different varieties of fighting in Viet Nam, are both correspondents' books depicting war's unvarnished nastiness. Both also recall the long stretches of inaction between horrors, and each author has an ear attuned to the incongruities, the horseplay and simple compassion of fighting men that explain why soldiers do not turn into professional killers...
...excellent cover story on an excellent actress-Sandy Dennis [Sept. 1]. Aside from her abundant talent, it is reassuring to know that there are those in an often maligned profession who refuse to demean either themselves or their vocations by using popular opinion as a constant beacon. Mrs. Mulligan serves as a rare illustration of the fact that those with sufficient will, intelligence, sensitivity and courage have little need to compromise themselves to succeed...
...life. She had always sworn better dead than wed ("My life is on that stage; I am an actress; I can't do both"). But in June 1965, after three weeks' courtship, she married one of the pathfinding composers of modern jazz, Baritone Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, now 40. Curiously, Mulligan had been the last love of the tragicomedienne most often likened to Sandy, Judy Holliday, who had just died of cancer. One dissonant note: Sandy is tone-deaf, ignorant of jazz, and the only records she owned were in a different groove-Andy Williams. Says Mulligan...
Turning philosophical, Sandy divides her world into "realities" and "unrealities." Her professional activities are the unrealities, her relationship with Mulligan and their possessions the realities. Not that Sandy has so crystalline a view of her own mind and goals. She had a miscarriage during the shooting of Virginia Woolf, and in speaking about it she says: "I don't want children, and I don't not want children, you know...