Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter W. Birge, Jr. '35, president of the Harvard Club of central and southeast Ohio, is the man football captain Pete Hart was talking about when he said in his inauguration speech, "I'd like to thank the guy who recruited...
...annual report on Minnesota boys at Harvard to get a foot in the door.... We send it to the boys we have tips on, and then sit back and wait for a nibble," he said last spring. If a boy responds with so much as a thank-you, Peddie said, "We tell the school that so-and-so has expressed an interest in us, which is literally true, even if exaggerated...
...couldn't begin to describe the plot of The Country Wife. Most of the frenetic running around concerns the activities of one Harry Horner, a professed eunuch who in fact is doing quite well, thank you. Horner has little trouble fooling Sir Jasper Fidget, a cuckold's cuckold, but he runs into difficulty when he goes after Mrs. Margery Pinchwife, chiefly because Mr. Pinchwife hasn't been told that Horner is impotent, which, of course, he isn't, if you follow me. So much for the plot exposition...
...inevitably-and fortunately-involves more Kurosawa than Shakespeare. With blunt and vital irreverence the director has translated Shakespeare's words into Japanese images, Shakespeare's lords into Japanese barons. Even in Shakespeare's plot, Kurosawa has condensed detail, juggled scenes, chucked the sentimental excrescences-among them, thank heaven, the soap-operatic murder of poor little Baby Macduff. Kurosawa's intention is plainly to hack off the Gothic foliage of Shakespeare's fancy and compress his tale into that traditional form of Japanese theater known as noh. As in those vast dance-dramas of destiny, Kurosawa...
Instead of saying "Thank you," the growers complained anew: "How can we sell our cotton to the foreigners if the price is so high?" So the government said: "Don't fear-you sell your cotton to those foreigners at the price they are willing to pay, and we will pay you another 8½? for every pound you sell." Well sir, no sooner were the growers of cotton mollified than the makers of cotton cloth and yarn and clothing began to moan. "All those foreigners," they wailed, "are buying our country's cheap cotton and making it into...