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...years, critics of the University have charged that the professors here, especially hot shots such as Bernard Bailyn and Stephen Jay Gould, are arrogant and pompous...
...critics beware. At long last, the University has finally gotten rid of its arrogant and pompous instructors. The condescending ones are gone...
...years, critics of the University have charged that the professors here, especially hot shots such as Bernard Bailyn and Stephen Jay Gould, are arrogant and pompous...
First, to the title: surely the inclusion of the word "College" after "Harvard" is meant to emphasize the undergraduate character of the publication. But by drawing attention to Harvard College, the Forum, inadvertantly spurns Radcliffe, which is mentioned--nowhere in the journal. A more pompous indication of the institutional and hierarchical instincts of these editors comes in their calling themselves "the President and Fellows," a parroting of the University's power structure which one can only wish were satirical. From parroting to sycophancy, there is the spectacle of the Forum's "Advisory Board," a cluster of Harvard's brightest superstars...
DIED. Harold Peary, 76, radio actor who starred from 1937 to 1950 as "The Great Gildersleeve," the pompous windbag with a heart of gold well hidden behind a wall of bluster, first on Fibber McGee and Molly and then on his own show, and made "You're a ha-a-ard man, McGee" and his trademark oily giggle national crazes; of a heart attack; in Torrance, Calif. Peary (born Harrold Jose Pereira de Faria) made several movies and numerous TV appearances as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve and in other parts; the radio role, which he abandoned, was continued until...