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...lecture, he was "a consummate artist, who knew all the tricks of rhetoric and histrionics." Most undergraduates feared his outbursts of temper, which were provoked by any rude or unprepared students. Despite the intellectual stimulation provided by his classes, most of the stories about them idealize his imperious and domineering manner...
...matches and always wore a pearl-gray suit. He carried a cane which he held high in the air to stop Harvard Square traffic, causing one truck driver to remark, "Who do you think you are--Santa Claus?" He also used his cane to knock the hats off students rude enough to wear them inside Widener. An associate of Leverett House, his portrait hangs in the Dining Hall there...
...most sacred taboos, NBC's Comedian Steve Allen took a deep breath and told Critic O'Brian off. He filled six columns of Manhattan's Greenwich Village weekly Village Voice in lambasting O'Brian as "the only TV critic in the nation who is rude, inaccurate, unchristian and vengeful...
...text, though not up to that rude standard, was interesting enough-a rambling argument that the good old colonial days were over and, what is more, never were that good. Most of the original settlers, the News cheerfully observed, ''would have sold their British heritage for a bottle of rum." Now, the editorial continued, "H.M.S. Bermuda comes to wave the Union Jack at us, but even that is little more than a symbol of has-beens and a voice from the past. For good or ill, Bermuda's face is turned westward. To America she looks...
...Boston's Jamaica Plain and began to serenade the ladies in the lighted window above. They warbled songs like Mother, I'm Slowly Dying and The Man in the Moon's Ball. Midway through, they were interrupted by a band of town boys who made rude noises on wind instruments, unhitched the Harvards' horses and sent them trudging on foot back to Cambridge. That was in Harvard's musical infancy. Last week the glee club assembled again (present membership: 135) to celebrate its centennial with the help of the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston...