Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beneath a huge sepia photograph of the general, the speakers are extolling his qualities as citizen-soldier-statesman...
...rare photograph of the late Howard Hughes taken during his Chinese period," cracks Peter Sellers. Actually, it's Sellers in his newest movie, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu. Sellers, ranging between the Himalayas (actually the French Alps) and London's Limehouse district, plays the legendary Sax Rohmer villain as a 168-year-old man who steals jewels to crush them into an elixir of life. No, the chefs attire wasn't necessary to cook up such an outlandish plot. It's for the Chinese feast he's preparing for the Tower of London...
...West Point's first-year students, are not permitted to hang any decoration in their rooms. In their first semester, they are not allowed even a radio, and they must wait until they are upperclassmen to put stereos in their rooms, and to hang exactly one poster and one photograph and to care for one plant. Plebes learn to live with endless room inspections and constant hazing by upperclassmen, with whom they are never allowed to fraternize. They rise with bugle and bell calls at 6:15 a.m. for a 6:30 breakfast formation, and taps sound...
...read with astonishment the remark attributed to me (underneath the photograph) in your article in today's Crimson, in which you report my address at the Institute of Politics. I said no such thing as "nothing short of uprisings like those of the Soweto townships in June 1976 will end apartheid." Neither in my address nor in reply to questions (2 speeches) from the floor did I make any such statement. Freedom of the Press is one thing--licence is another. Helen Suzman...
When a commentator holds up a wicked man to righteous indignation, a good photograph can do wonders in setting the right moral tone. Your picture of Connally is admirable for this purpose: his glistening, protruding canines beautifully evoke the Transylvanian candidate. My question is, does the writer have to supply his own picture, or do you keep a file on deserving public figures...