Word: valedictorians
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...life, Thomas H. Moorer has been a comer. He was valedictorian of his high school class at 15, then had to wait two years before he could pick up his appointment and sail through Annapolis in the class of '33. At Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked, he survived to pilot Navy reconnaissance planes again and pick up a fistful of medals, from the Purple Heart to the Distinguished Flying Cross. Since then, he has had some of the toughest jobs in the Navy, including commander of the Seventh Fleet and, most recently, the tricky triple-hatted post...
...Ransom and Tate dammed up the first freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated by restraint. He emerged from Kenyon summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and class valedictorian. He also emerged a Roman Catholic convert and a husband...
Fairbank, 21, already had quite a reputation. He had been valedictorian at Exeter and was writing an excellent thesis, later awarded a summa, on the Russian revolution. He had come from South Dakota ("from the provinces," as he later described it) and when he spoke that afternoon the words came painstakingly slow and were full of unscholarly American idioms...
...suggesting that Forman is a conscious innovator in form, or that he will necessarily continue his gleeful negligence of film grammar. No doubt his rough spots could be sanded away by a valedictorian from any of the academics. It doesn't much matter. Through his own flaws or through some lesser soul's corrections, Forman's large soul will continue issuing an uncommonly perceptive love for humankind...
...than plot to get her through those seven years, and the movie has followed her example. Dottie (Joan Hackett) of Chapter 2 fame, is from Boston and decides to lose her virginity with a Greenwich Village artist. Helena (Kathleen Widdoes) is the daughter of an industrialist, sexually "neuter" and Valedictorian. Libby (Jessica Walter) is a bitch who becomes a career woman in the publishing world. Polly (Shirly Knight) runs metabolism tests because the money ran out for her doctor's education, and keeps a delightfully insane father. Priss (Elizabeth Hartman) worked for NRA, then married and went through mental agonies...