Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hibbs and Sidney Verba '53, professor of Government, were speaking on "The 1980 Election: One Year Later...
...same oblivious good cheer comes through in a feature called "Young Love Gives Millionaire Sidney Down a New Lease on Life," the story of a Las Vegas stripper's whirlwind courtship with an 87-year-old tycoon. "Sidney took Goldie for a brief spin in his private jet, gave her a $300,000 necklace...But it wasn't until after they'd exchanged vows, back in Nevada, that he revealed his startling secret--that he is one of the richest men in the country." In real life and in the parody, People assumes the best about people--try to think...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) this week began the most comprehensive review of the undergraduate curriculum in more than a decade. The group's first order of business is to examine honors degree requirements, which Sidney Verba '53, associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education and chairman of CUE, called "the prime example" of "complicated arcane and confusing" rules. The student-Faculty committee's investigation will include the minumum course requirements for a term which currently stand at one in some cases; deadlines for dropping, adding, and changing courses; course credit for work done elsewhere and in summer school...
...show redeems the opening week, though hardly the season. NBC has a genuinely original and well-made TV movie on Monday in Sidney Shorr, the love story of a little girl and the homosexual man who raises her. For once it is not market research, nor the lessons of the past, but human truth that has gone into the shaping of a character and his world. Sidney is a disappointed, middle-aged illustrator who passionately opposes abortion and infidelity and the whole sexual revolution...
...family, though he feels unable to sire one in the normal way. Viewers who might be unnerved by the show's premise should be assured by the casting of Tony Randall, a familiar figure whose nonmacho image was already comfortably established as half of The Odd Couple. Sidney believes that a family is not necessarily what church or state ordains but what people make for themselves...