Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Youngman's got the violin--great for pacing. Frye does imitations--classy. Me? I say pathetic things about myself for a living. All I've got going for me is the pathos. Did you know that Art Carney turned down an invitation to speak at Harvard Class Day Exercises in 1957 because he felt he couldn't miss a single taping of the Honeymooners? You know I write all my own material? Nobody else wanted to. I don't get no respect. The mailman bites my dog. My mother-in-law bites the mailman. My wife is so dumb that...
...honey, honey...You haven't heard the good news. We're going to Harvard in a few weeks. It seems they want me so speak at their Commencement this year...
Upon learning that Woody Allen, Lily Tomlin and Orson Welles had declined offers to speak at the ceremony, Dangerfield said, "It's still an exciting thing...
Three Harvard seniors will also speak at the ceremonies, which occur the day before Commencement. Hugh Hewitt will deliver the Harvard oration, Kathy M. Silberthau will give the Radcliffe speech, and Daniel J. McCarthy will deliver the traditionally humorous Ivy oration...
Dangerfield said he feels he has "been shown some respect already" by being asked to speak at Harvard...