Word: walts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gramophone records I listen to in Parma," the 78-year-old professor explained. "I have been to America only in my dreams. I will be happy if my opera is performed again, but I must admit that my greatest ambition is to write music for the films of Walt Disney...
Stowell noted that the team does not have the individual standouts that it had last year. Instead he characterizes the present squad as having "quite a few real good men." High jump and broad jump specialist Chris Pardee, hurdler Tony Lynch, and miler Walt Hewlett were all consistent winners during the indoor season. Pardee currently holds the University high jump record at 6 ft. 51/2...
Running through mixed rain and snow, freshman ace Walt Hewlett covered 26 miles in 2 hours and 53 minutes to finish eighth in New York's annual Cherry Tree Marathon on Sunday. Hewlett was the Ivy League's freshman Big Three Champion in cross country competition last fall...
Well, that's one way to give the customers a kick. But there are others, and Walt Disney exploits almost all of them in this insuperably sappy sequel to The Absent Minded Professor. Remember him? His name is Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) and he teaches chemistry at Medfield College. One day he blows up his lab and in the debris discovers flubber-the word means flying rubber, and the substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks...
...poet's own generation cannot issue him a passport to immortality, even when it would like to. Robert Frost was no literary revolutionary, like Walt Whitman or T. S. Eliot. But he is more controlled and artful than Whitman, less narrowly contemporary than the early Eliot, wider-ranging than that fellow precisionist, Emily Dickinson. Some of these had strengths that were not his, as he had strengths that were not theirs. His own generation can only be sure that he belongs in high company...