Word: simpsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nicolson never tried to disguise the fact that he was a member of the elite, and since he obviously felt that people outside that elite had something wrong with them, he frequently sounds like a crashing snob. He never truly cared for Mrs. Wallis Simpson, for example; he looked on her as an American social climber, though he faithfully recorded each of the many times he met her at parties. Like many Englishmen of his generation and class, he was troubled almost as deeply about the abdication as he was about Munich. "What is so tragic," he confided...
Oscar Handlin is posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor after he deftly parachutes through North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire in a futile attempt to rescue Harrison Salisbury. Vassar's president Simpson says he is "leaning" toward Princeton...
Robert Goheen, president of Princeton University, asks Vassar to consider merging with Princeton instead of Yale. "Gosh, I'm flabbergasted--I just don't know what to say," answers Alan Simpson, President of Vassar. Attorney Mark Lane dies of hoof-in-mouth disease. His last words: "...Patrick Nugent ... Texas School Book Depository...
Vassar's president Simpson changes his mind again and decides not to merge with anyone. Exasperated, Goheen and Kingman Brewster Jr. hold a wee-morning-hours conference in conveniently located New Rochelle, and reach agreement. Yale and Princeton merge. The Dunster House revival of Breakfast at Tiffany's breaks all box office records for the Dunster House dining room...
GUMMIDGE: You're on your way. For your final exam, read and commit to memory the 23rd Psalm Jargonized by Alan Simpson, president of Vassar College...