Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taffrail Club, H-R Teacher Aide Program, H-R Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Harvard Wind Ensemble, Harvard Witness Club, H-R United World Federalists, Harvard Yearbook Publications...
...problems with making a scene at Harvard is that, by and large, the administrators and school officials are both intelligent and liberal. Although at first glance this might appear an asset which would allow a strong hippie element to emerge, in the final analysis Harvard's liberalism takes the wind out of potential protest issues. For instance how can you stage a "sleep-in" when parietals are constantly being liberalized. Last year proved that University officials are not apt to make any of the same kind of disasterous mistakes that Kerr made in Berkeley. During the McNamara demonstration Dean Monro...
Thus the Aussie skipper could only say that if there had been practically no wind at all at Newport, R.I., last week, Dame Pattie might have been competition for Bus Mosbacher and the U.S. defender, Intrepid. As it was, the winds ranged from seven to 22 knots, and Pattie lost three straight races by wide margins. On not one single point of sailing did the Australian 12-meter yacht prove superior...
...saps are in full flood among the situation comedies too. Most cynical confection of the season is The Flying Nun (ABC), a mating of The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. Cutesy Star Sally Field, 21, plays a swinging nun whose starchy cornet launches her airborne in the wind cur rents around her Puerto Rican convent. Naturally, her antics appall the stern, stereotyped mother superior, but Sister Sally manages endless good works and bad gags, such as a crash landing in an Army garbage dump...
Desi Arnaz is back, this time as executive producer of The Mothers-in-Law (NBC). Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard are squabbling next-door neighbors whose children wind up marrying each other. Eve, best known as Our Miss Brooks, is one of the few comediennes in the business who earns her laugh track. Kaye, who plays an Italian housewife, is a versatile actress, but she tends to overdo to the point that the show may be boycotted by Frank Sinatra's Anti-Defamation League. Producer Arnaz thinks he has a winner. "It's not sophisticated," he says...