Word: willard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss Kearns took a leave of absence in 1967 to serve as a White House fellow to Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor...
...Harvard supporters are Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; George C. Homans '32, professor of Sociology; Willard V. O. Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; and Israel Scheffler, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy...
...still promised to produce hundreds of young "Nixonaires," dressed in silver-sequined miniskirts, at each of the balls. As the weekend approached, downtown hotels and suburban motels were jammed with guests from all corners of the nation. One of the most congested spots in town was outside the old Willard Hotel, where tickets to inaugural events were on sale. The Republicans did not have the field to themselves. A group of Democrats and some newsmen staged the "First Quadrennial Pre-Inaugural Extra-Dimensional Ball," and found a heavy demand for tickets. Meanwhile, antiwar groups organized protest demonstrations...
There were some other difficulties. Inaugural Chairman J. Willard Marriott pleaded with Washington hotelmen not to raise rates during the festivities; unknown to him, his own Marriott Motor Hotels had hiked the price of a double room by 20%, to $30 a night...
Verbal Combat Fatigue. The plot, insofar as there is one, is to get the fiance (Fred Willard), who wants to remain one in perpetuity, to marry the daughter and then do something or other with his life. As a photographer he has specialized in pictures of human excrement, which is presumably Feiffer's ultimate comment on the state of contemporary society. But the fiance is catatonically passive. At one point his would-be bride (Linda Lavin) says with caustic distress: "See, he doesn't know how to fight. That's why I'm not winning." Finally...