Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Written by freshman Harlan Page Peck in 1859, the song changed once before, adopting its current melody when it proved impossible to set the lyrics to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne...
Over there was Norman Mailer chatting with Yoko Ono. Through the lobby strode Gregory Peck wearing a name card. Gregory Peck with a name card? Where are we? Claudia Cardinale was a stunning sight in a tailored black-and-white-striped suit. Peter Ustinov moved grandly about, with all the bearing and intonation of one of his best-known characters, Inspector Hercule Poirot. "I can't believe it," said an awed American tourist as she gawked around the lobby of the Kosmos Hotel. "This could be Hollywood." Or, the way things are these days, it could be Moscow...
Much serious work was done at dozens of closed sessions, and Actor Peck described the whole event as a "very positive happening." But there was also some serious partying. Between meetings the visitors found time to schmooze and booze with their hosts, take in the sights and visit the Bolshoi and other Moscow theaters. The best place for stargazing was the cavernous marble lobby of the Kosmos Hotel, where Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov shuffled between round-table discussions and Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko appeared one morning in a bright red suit. Black Volga sedans and Chaika limousines waited outside the three...
...progress reportedly being made in MCC labs, the consortium's work has been hampered by the wary independence of some of its members. While MCC companies all want to share in the fruits of the consortium's research, they do not want to give competitors an edge. Says Drew Peck, who follows electronics companies for the Gartner Group: "Member firms are reluctant to assign their first-tier researchers to MCC. To them, sharing their research talent and resources with competitors is considered an unnatural act." But that is exactly what U.S. companies may have to do to best their Japanese...
...beginning was Gentleman's Agreement, in which Nice Goy Gregory Peck pretended to be Jewish, the better to write an earnest indictment of anti- Semitism for a magazine. Now, almost 40 years later, comes Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell), overdosing on tanning pills and learning what it feels like to be black. But Mark is no gentleman: short of funds, he is out to obtain a scholarship to Harvard Law School intended for a black student. And the only agreement the filmmakers have reached is to aim for safe mediocrity...