Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bradley is certainly more than a figment of a good press agent. He connected on 11 of 22 shots; his passing and ball-handling were fantastic. In fact, they're probably too good--Tiger Coach Bill van Breda Kolff must wish that Bradley would shoot more and feed off less to his lacklustre teammates...
...teeth, then parts his lips and sort of hisses that makes it so great," explains Ciji Ware, a Radcliffe senior whose favorite swain, as she calls him, is Ted Landreth, the Harvard boy who in turn best imitates the way Bogey smoked. "Bogey," she insists, "is everything we wish Harvard-men were, in addition to what they already are. Bogey's direct and honest. He gets involved with his women, but he doesn't go through an identity crisis every five minutes. He's the ultimate man. He's so rugged. So absolutely unattainable. The essence...
Hamilton's desire to go to medical school could be served best by attending Georgia. Therefore his personal battle, his wish to "make those crackers sit up and take notice," was fought in the classroom. Charlayne was not so singleminded. She wanted to observe people observing her. More gregarious than Hamilton and lacking his drive, Charlayne chose to live on campus instead of with a Negro family...
...played by the same actress) has already appeared in a vision to him. In another scene the characters watch other actors audition for the roles they are playing. Flashback scenes add a third frame of references, a fourth of sorts is created by scenes which act out Guido's wishes. In one he is surrounded by a harem of doting women who cater to his every wish; in another a carping critic mouthing platitudinous attacks on the film is led away by two men and hanged...
Each June the President of Harvard University welcomes the members of the graduating class into "the fellowship of educated men." Some of the young men who face him undoubtedly are qualified to join that elite group, but on the whole the President's welcome must be more wish than fact. There is little to guarantee that even a conscientious student will become educated during four years at Harvard...