Word: pell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cold Cliches. At the end of the first day, prepackaged rhetoric gave way to poignance as Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell asked if it "might be conceivable" that many U.S. allies are correct in their doubts about U.S. strategy. "Well," Rusk replied, "these are questions that one approaches on one's knees. One cannot be eternally dogmatic about them...
Bang Bang. What makes Laugh-In laughable is not so much the material as the freewheeling, pell-mell pace at which it is dished out. One-liners fly like ack-ack, and if there are more than a few duds it is hard to tell in the thick of the barrage. Everybody wings it, and in that spirit the show's resident cast of bright young kooks often make the lines seem funnier than they really are. "If one gag goes completely over your head," says Martin, "there'll be another along in a few seconds that...
...Pell-Mel Lunacy. Records about The Man became a campus favorite and led to a profitable hitch for Brooks (who is married to Actress Anne Bancroft) as Ballantine Beer's 2,500-year-old Brewmaster. The residuals really started rolling in when he and Writer Buck Henry created a television series about a fumbling, bumbling superspy named Maxwell Smart. After the outsized success of Get Smart, Brooks was constantly asked what he intended to do next. He developed a stock answer: he was writing and directing a movie called Springtime for Hitler, a backhanded reference to Edward Everett Horton...
...also heard Faculty members offer information on the language requirement and interviewed Col. Robert H. Pell, professor of Military Science, on the senior-year Army ROTC course, Military Science...
...hour drill period each week. Although a ROTC cadet must pass this course to be eligible for commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Reserves, the final decision on commissions depends on the opinion of the Professor of Military Science and his staff. The CEP discussion with Pell is simply to decide whether the course should receive full-half course credit...