Word: strided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only after everyone is seated does Donald H. Fleming, Professor of History, stride briskly into Emerson D to deliver his lectures on American thought. He unwinds his scarf with a flourish, and jauntily waves his acknowledgement to the friendly hisses or applause with which his History 169 students often greet him. When this urbane figure turns to a discussion of intellectual history, he gives a dramatic, as well as an historical, interpretation of the men treated in the course. Reading from original sources, he tries to convey the sarcasm of H.L. Mencken, the vitality of Theodore Roosevelt, or the pomposity...
...Palace." The multijetted fountain in the reception hall sounds like "a toilet permanently out of order," the ambassador grumbles. But when the fountain is turned off, the small pool is hardly noticeable. On one occasion, a U.S. colonel marched straight through it without breaking stride on his way to greet Galbraith, standing at the other side. Since then, the perimeter of the pool has been marked with potted plants...
...news conference, he stormed that "these decisions have been taken by Her Majesty's Government under threat from men who seek power. The people of Central Africa, black and white alike, are being betrayed to these men!" Southern Rhodesia's Field took the news in stride. Now that the federation was virtually dissolved, Field wanted a British guarantee of independence for Southern Rhodesia, and presumably a guarantee of its constitution, which is rigged against the black majority. Until such guarantees are given, said Field, he will attend no more conferences...
...mood was reflected at a post-Costa Rican press conference. Newsmen tossed him some pretty sticky questions-and he took them in easy stride...
Playing Camille's lover, John Stride indulges in so much whinnying, snorting and foot pawing that it is not clear whether he is suffering from the onset of amour or the opening of Aqueduct. As for Susan Strasberg, daughter of Actors Studio Artistic Director Lee Strasberg, it is surely a father's duty to tell her. As the phthisical Marguerite Gautier, only a cough distinguishes her from the Chatty Cathy doll...