Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Come to Say Hello, I Came to Say Good-Bye), also got a Sullivan offer plus a flood of nightclub bookings. But Hawaiian Singer-Hula Dancer Haleloke, a longtime Godfrey fixture, was so upset that she took to her bed. As for the writers, Godfrey said: "They just write those little cards I read from. I don't need writers unless I can find some with new ideas." After his hard day's work, Godfrey left his office on crutches (a hangover from his 1953 hip operation), accompanied by a pert young secretary. "Who's the lady...
...free spirit, and his refusal to fit into the aristocratic mold for which his past fitted him, deprived him of much of the social prestige readily available to him. Although he became the Lampoon's ibis and gained entrance to Hasty Pudding because the club needed someone to write its show's lyrics, he could not win admission to the more exclusive clubs or to the Crimson, then dominated then by arch-aristocrats who disapproved of Reed. His most political act was to join the Cosmopolitan Club, a semi-official effort to debate the day's international issues...
...trouble runs deeper than the Boston press, and it is not a phenomenon of recent years alone. In 1912, revolutionary leader John S. Reed '10 was able to write a statement which sounds surprisingly familiar today. "What's wrong with Harvard?" he asked. "Something is the matter. Numerous letters from alarmed alumni pour into the President's office every day, asking if Socialism and anarchy are on the rampage among undergraduates. When faculty members speak in the Midwest, someone always rises to ask if Harvard is really the hot-bed of hair-brained Radicalism that newspapers allege. Old grads shake...
...mechanism in developing the individuality of this mythical hero of two later generations of would-be revolutionaries. His career as a writer, his reaction against the World War, his associations, and inborn rebelliousness more surely led Reed to communism. For, to Reed, revolution was, as John Dos Passos '16 writes, "a voice as mellow as Copey's, Diogenes Steffens with Marx for a lantern going through the west looking for a good man, Socrates Steffens kept asking why not resolution? Jack Reed wanted to live in a tub and write verses; but he kept meeting bums workingmen husky guys...
...advised to simply take the attitude that your mother is going through a sulky, pouty, emotional reaction . . . If you should give in to her now and go and make yourself subservient to her, you would create an unhappy situation that might exist for years . . . I would suggest that you . . . write her . . . pleasant little notes. Send her things. Do everything in your power to show her that you love her . . . Just remain steady and be as nice as possible, and at all times be kindly and forgiving...