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...Oooooh...Mmmmh, ooh, that's a very hard question. If I knew the answer, I would tell you." A. Bartlett Giamatti can't say why he accepted the offer to become president of Yale University last winter. He rubs his chin, shakes his head a little, pondering the question. He screws up his soft face, where a little bit of a goatee outlines his chin--but it's really in his eyes. His brown eyes grow misty and far away; and the deep sighs, mixed with a sad chuckle or two reveal a man somewhat puzzled by his situation...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Giamatti at Yale: Professor Turns President | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

YALE at COLUMBIA--Oooooh, are they mad in New Haven. They're steaming, in fact. No longer undefeated, in fourth place, and wasn't this supposed to be the big year? Well, it still might be, and today, Columbia will get punished for Dartmouth's indiscretion. Yale 34, Columbia...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Who's Kidding? | 10/15/1977 | See Source »

...their questions: OooooH! There's out Cliffie. Honey, I want you to tell me all (read: aaalllllllll) about that crazy Women's Lib business. And your Mama tells me you're in a coed dorm-how Quains! Tell me tell me tell me tell...

Author: By Dale Ruseakoff, | Title: North Toward Harvard | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

Some of the rock and roll types approached burst spontaneously into the chorus of the song: "Dook, dook, dook, dookuv url url url." (The song, sung by Gene Chandler, is divided, fugue-like, into three overlapping voices, a "Dook, dook, dook" line, an "oooooh, oooooh, oooooh" line, and the story line, which goes something like "Wherever I go in this wide world there's nothing can stop the Duke of Earl...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: 'Duke of Earl' Mystifies College, Is No Puzzle for High Schoolers | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...inspiration, or at least a consolation: one of the most intricate of modern jazzmen, Pianist Dave Brubeck, played a tune at Manhattan's Basin Street that only two members of the audience recognized as Stardust, while in the dance hall around the corner, the ten-millionth blonde said. "Oooooh, listen, honey. They're playing our song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They're Playing Our Song | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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