Word: puseys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SUMNER REDSTONE knew he mustn't let them think him flustered. Christ, he thought to himself, no wonder Pusey's throwing in the towel. For every time Sumner managed another sentence, the crowd before him roared with laughter. For the life of him, Sumner just couldn't understand it. Was this then what Harvard had come to? Sumner could feel himself beginning to sweat. If there were only some way of short-circuiting the laughter, of turning it against itself. But Sumner could see no way out, and just kept on plowing headlong through the introductory remarks that had been...
...just one weekend ("The Lost Weekend," someone yelled back): through another guy's apostrophe to this "pure and simple love story" (a premarital affair between a foul-mouthed Cliffie and an Oedipal jock is now by Hollywood's eyes pure and simple ?); through a third's attempt to thank Pusey sidekick Bentinck-Smith (although he kept mispronouncing it Benting ) for allowing the film crew on campus as "friendly trespassers." And when Segal concluded it all by referring to Harvard as "an institution for which everyone here has respect," he brought down the house...
...Pusey announces additional retirement plans. Will take continuing role in Sesame Street, playing a lovable old neighborhood college president...
...Yorker Magazine publishes three segments from Nathan Pusey's forthcoming memoirs, entitled You Don't Need McCarthy to Fight Communism. John Kenneth Galbraith hails it as "perhaps not without some merit, but then again, perhaps...
...charges that NAC has copped out, leader Michael Ansara answers helplessly, "This is the only way we could keep our tax deduction and our Ford Foundation grant. Below, ANSARA receives check for $50,000 from McGEORGE BUNDY (smiling), president of the Ford Foundation (assers: $21/2 billion), as NATHAN PUSEY (pouting), president of the Mellon Foundation (assets: $600 million), looks...