Word: robin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund raisers called the affair VIP Night on Broadway, and it was indeed that. Scores of celebrities, including TV Star Robin Williams, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Falsetto Tiny Tim and Actresses Claudette Colbert, Phyllis Newman, Lauren Bacall and Brooke Shields were on hand for a $24-a-seat variety show at the Shubert theater. Maureen Stapleton sang Gilbert and Sullivan's "The policeman's lot is not a happy one." Angela Lansbury borrowed a song from the musical Sweeney Todd, singing for the cops, No One Will Harm You. Those who paid $96-the price of one bulletproof...
Seniors concentrating in History will take their general examinations today. Robin B. Balthrope '79, a History concentrator, said yesterday, "I'll be glad when this is all over. Everywhere I went this last week, I've had a book in hand." Balthrope said she has studied about eight hours each day during the last week in preparation for the History general examination...
...younger gays, especially in big cities, have never hidden their identities. Benefiting from the progress of the movement, they have lived openly as homosexuals since they first realized that they were gay But they are a tiny minority of a minority Says Robin MacCormack, a gay assistant to Boston Mayor Kevin White: "I am just one very fortunate person. In those buildings in the financial district and all around the city, there are people who go to work every day wondering: Is this the day I'm going to let something slip? Is this the day I'm going...
Enter a plucky upper-class Englishman. In the days before the sun set on the British Empire, his ancestors might have rattled a few sabers and issued an edict in the name of the Queen. But Robin Hanbury-Tenison, 42, re-established order in a subtler way. After studying the troubled tribesmen, he launched a program to teach them fishing and chicken and pig farming. That helped restore their self-sufficiency and, equally important, their selfesteem...
...Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday that opening University libraries to area residents is "not one of the alternatives I've heard discussed...