Word: nicholson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would like to try something different, maybe get Jack Nicholson or Carol Burnett to speak here," he said...
...Richard Nicholson '86's conure bird found flying high more difficult. Nicholson was studying in his room one day last year when he heard his conure fluttering around in the other room, and "then a smack and no noise." He ran into the other room and started looking for the bird who had mysteriously disappeared...
Finally he discovered the bird under a couch "huffing and puffing and breathing hard." Since the conure's wings were clipped, his attempts at flying turned out to be "more of a falling glide," says Nicholson...
Such secrecy was a little harder for Nicholson and his roommates. Mert, the conure, often screeched at the top of his lungs. Even his owners got tired of hearing Mert's screams...
Ironically enough, Mert's name derived from the House administration. Since Mert was supposed to be a talking bird, Nicholson figured that if they taught him to say hello, he would be croaking out the name of Eliot House Master Alan M. Heimert by saying "Hi, Mert...