Word: whiffenpoofs
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...films: the collision between British culture and anarchic nature, a conflict that virtually defines the Australian experience. The scene is Indonesia in 1965, as the Sukarno government stumbles toward a coup that will eventually end the strongman's reign. In the streets, Communist marchers sing revolutionary songs with Whiffenpoof harmonies; in the white man's clubs, journalists and diplomats slug back their Scotch and try to forget that the good imperial days have vanished into Third World arrogance. Among the Caucasians are Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson), one of the Australian correspondents, and Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver), a glamorous...
When the Din and Tonics, one of Harvard's newest groups, host the Radcliffe Pitches and the Yale Whiffenpoof at tomorrow night's Sanders. Theater jamboree they 'll be serenading the group that usually takes center stage at Harvard's a capella extravaganzas the Krokodiloes will be sitting in the audience...
Approximately 100 Yale students and faculty will join the service and maintenance workers Saturday afternoon in picketing and distributing informational leaflets at the Yale Bowl and the Whiffenpoof concert, Robert Blecker, a Yale senior and member of the Yale Student Strike Support Committee, said last night...
...Connecticut Supreme Court challenge to Mory's, the all-male New Haven drinking club, which must now fight to maintain its private-club status in order to continue refusing to admit women (a policy since 1886). The "gentlemen songsters off on a spree" proclaimed in Yale's Whiffenpoof Song may be presented with the uncomfortable choice of finding a watering hole other than Mory's or being joined by lady listeners. If that weren't enough, the New York City Health Department after diligent inspection listed the mid-Manhattan Yale Club as in violation...
...poor little lambs who have lost our way, baa, baa, baa." The sad, self-pitying song was echoing from the Saigon residence of U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Were things really going that badly? Certainly not. To celebrate the founding of the Saigon Yale Club, the famed Whiffenpoof Song (an adaptation of one of Rudyard Kipling's glamorizations of the white man's burden) was being sung by old Eli Bunker, class of '16, and some 15 others, among them a U.S. general who graced the occasion in a Y-inscribed blue T shirt. The ceremony was complete...