Word: rottenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After listening to the chant "Go Green Go" shake the walls of Watson three days ago and watching an inspired Dartmouth team literally rob Harvard of a critical win that seemed all but locked up in the waning minutes of the game, it became evident that there was something rotten in the state of Cambridge, something missing from the Crimson recipe for victory...
...done justice to the memory of Arnold, Capra's bloated symbol of all that was wrong with America in three consecutive celebrations of his defeat: You Can't Take It With You, Mr. Smith and Meet John Doe. In the first, he was an obese and lost soul, a rotten but salvagable capitalist. By the last, he had become a fascist threat, buying his own police state. If it hadn't been for the war, God knows what he would have done, but Capra was drafted, and in the famous Why We Fight series, foreign villains replaced Arnold...
French on his father's side, Pasqualini's mother was Chinese, and he was born and educated at mission schools in Peking, "a thoroughly rotten and reactionary, bourgeois education," as he concedes, without coming across too abashedly. He speaks four languages, including Mandarin Chinese, and his work for the U.S. Army in the early '50s as a machine technician and then for its Criminal Investigation Division, led to his interrogation and imprisonment for Lao Gai during the Census of Foreigners in 1954. At the time of his arrest he was working as a cultural attache for a Western embassy (unnamed...
Died. John Aloysius Costello, 84, twice Prime Minister of Ireland and former leader of the conservative Fine Gael party; of cancer; in Dublin. After his surprise victory in 1948 over his longtime rival, Fianna Fail Leader Eamon de Valera, Costello quipped, "I feel rotten. Last Saturday I was a free man." But he energetically pursued his task, breaking Ireland's final constitutional link to Britain with the repeal of the External Relations Act. Costello lost the prime ministership to De Valera in 1951, won it back in 1954, lost it again in 1957 and quit politics...
...television set for up to six hours a day and be insulted. "Counterfeit, stylized brutality that passes for entertainment," he says of the current TV season, adding that the networks' offerings seem to be "devoid of innovation, creativity or diversification," freighted with "drivel," "sanitized doggerel" and "phony, rotten garbage...