Word: roberts
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...regarded as subversive. But perhaps it deserves a closer look. It starred Barbra Streisand, a notorious Hollywood lefty who also starred in The Way We Were, the 1973 weepie that glamorized frizzy-haired communists and left-wing agitators from New York City and derogated real Americans like handsome blond Robert Redford. In Hello, Dolly, Streisand plays a professional matchmaker who has her eye on Walter Matthau, playing a "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire." At a key moment, she declares, "Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around." Where...
...indefatigable Army engineer Robert Furman, who died Oct. 14 at 93, drove more than four hours through a winter storm to dedicate the offices where he had worked 64 years earlier as a key aide to the head of the top-secret Manhattan Project...
...Furman, the "biggest miracle" of the past 63 years was that no other atom bombs had been used. His fervent hope was for that to remain so. My last memory of Robert, a barbershop-quartet member, was of him standing in the snow on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, singing peacefully...
...rash decisions such as selecting Sarah Palin and suspending his campaign. While his supporters call him a maverick, I call him reckless. And as the past eight years have shown, recklessness is not what we need in a President. We need someone with intelligence, composure, discipline and restraint. Robert J. Inlow, CHARLOTTESVILLE...
...instructed hundreds of American and European students. The exhibit devoted to her was coordinated by research assistant Elizabeth Craft and Loeb staff members Virginia Danielson and Sarah Adams. It shows scores left to Harvard by the Boulanger estate and includes a composition by Harvard’s own Robert Levin that he completed at age 12. The exhibit concentrates on Boulanger’s effect on America and especially the impact she made in Cambridge and Boston. “Nadia Boulanger’s influence reached across America,” Craft says. “As composer Virgil...