Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boycott At California's San Jose State College a few years back, Harry Edwards, now 25, was quite an athlete: captain of the basketball team, school record holder in the discus, and such a hot upi prospect in football that several pro teams made him offers. Edwards, a tall (6 ft. 8 in.), brainy Negro, passed them all up to become an assistant professor of sociology at virtually all-white San Jose because "scholarship was my longest suit." Not quite. For the past six months, Harry's long suit has been Black Power and bitter protest-specifically...
...Tall Are You?" The 1952 presidential campaign marked Galbraith's first active involvement in politics. He authored Adlai Stevenson's Detroit La bor Day speech and shaped his economic policy from the campaign train. With somewhat less enthusiasm, he repeated the role in 1956. "Tragedy the second time is comedy," he notes wryly. Along with Schlesinger and Averell Harriman, he acted as Kennedy's liaison man with the Stevensonian liberal Establishment during the 1960 campaign, did the same for Bobby Kennedy during his 1964 Senate race in New York...
...once described India's economy as "the world's greatest example of functioning anarchy," he was welcomed as the biggest thing?in many respects?since Lord Irwin, later Viscount Halifax, who had traveled around the country as Viceroy 30 years earlier with an 8-ft. bed. "How tall are you?" Galbraith was asked soon after his ar rival. The reply: "I am the tallest man in the world...
...chiropodist, or a minister, or a research scientist. Or, you can be something else helpful, like a farmer, or an apprentice riveter, or a glass-blower, or the Vice President of the United States. The Selective Service makes the rules: how sick you can be, how crazy, how tall, how immoral, how ignorant, how conscientious...
...claiming that Angel Street made melodrama "respectable" through substitution of psychological motive for coincidental fate. Suspend all criticism of Hamilton's Freudian prowess, and the defense triumphs. But there is a further pitfall, an arguable one, and that is the movie Gaslight, a living rendition of the play standing tall above the Loeb's emulative reach...