Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force Reserve. Two weeks ago, the man who ranks as one of the game's all-time college greats finally reported to the New York Knickerbockers to start work on his four-year, $500,000 contract. From the way the fans reacted, he might have been Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain all rolled into one. In Bradley's first two home games, 30,000 fans (twice the usual number) jammed Madison Square Garden to cheer his every move. In the experts' cool appraisal, his debut was no more auspicious than that of any rookie starting...
...social commentator, Hope dares more than anyone else in show business to throw a pie in the industry's face. As emcee at the Oscar award ceremonies one year, he observed that "this is the night when war and politics are forgotten...
...YORK, Dec. 19-Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor, of American History, are among 14 Asia scholars who have signed a moderate Vietnam statement under the auspices of the Freedom House Public Affairs Institute...
...Died. Oscar Diego Gestido, 66, President of Uruguay since last March; of a heart attack; in Montevideo. A former air force general, Gestido was elected to succeed a free-spending nine-man council and save Uruguay from bankruptcy. It seemed a futile hope until October, when soaring inflation and rumors of a coup spurred him to impose a series of stiff reforms, which were greeted by such howls of indignation that he was forced to declare martial...
Demand for Demolition. This change in tone has been accompanied by a shift in reviewers. Some of the most perceptive writers - Sociologists Lewis Coser and Nathan Glazer, Economist Oscar Gass - are no longer contributing to the Review. Space is now filled by such New Left Partisans as Paul Goodman, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Andrew Kopkind and Chomsky, who reflect the opinions of the Review's principal founder, Jason Epstein, and its editor, Robert Silvers. "I wanted to write critical reviews," says Coser, a professor of sociology at Brandeis, "not the kind of demolition jobs they asked for. They...