Word: classics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classic Chicago scene, committeemen jammed paunch-to-paunch and cigar butt-to-cigar butt in the smoke-drenched meeting room. First to speak was Daley, who described the bills he had introduced as a state senator to help the aged, the disabled, and abused and neglected children. Never once did he mention what the fight was all about: control of the machine. Nineteen committeemen rose to endorse him. The most impassioned was Ed Kelly who, as president of the Chicago Park District, controls 3,000 jobs that Byrne has been trying to snatch away. "The Daley name is still magic...
...cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. The youngest Marx was pulled out of high school to replace his brother Gummo, who left the family vaudeville team before it moved to Hollywood. Cast as the straight man, Zeppo joined Chico (who died in 1961), Harpo (1964) and Groucho (1977) in five classic films, but he tired of his role and left the group after the release of Duck Soup in 1933. "He was a lousy actor," grouched Groucho, "and he got out as soon as he could." But Zeppo eventually became the richest of the brothers, working variously as a talent agent...
...Since the imminent deportation proceedings are meant expressly as a means of exerting political pressure on a foreign government and hence are unrelated to any permanent concern over the proper enforcement of the immigration laws, they represent a classic case of bending the legal system to suit the prevailing political mood...
...Blunt, he is the classic pattern of the Cambridge aesthete, with a quiet precise voice, and a taste for subdued lighting and respectfully adoring young men. In some ways, given the difference between Cambridge, Mass., and Cambridge, England, he is reminiscent of Alger Hiss. He mentioned in his apologia that in the '30s he was drawn to Marxism and the U.S.S.R. in the light of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, but went on to admit that it was the influence of Burgess that led him to translate this vague sympathy into active service on behalf...
...Holy Cross 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat. 28-29 at Maryland Invitational TBA January Mon. 7 at Brown* 7:30 p.m. Fri. 11 at Columbia* 8:00 p.m. Sat. 12 at Cornell* 7:30 p.m. Tue. 29 at Yale* 7:30 p.m. February Fri. 1 at Colonial Classic, TBA Sat. 2 at Boston Garden Tue. 5 at Dartmouth* 7:30 p.m. Fri. 8 PRINCETON* 7:30 p.m. Sat. 9 PENNSYLVANIA* 8:00 p.m. Wed. 13 ST. ANSELM'S 7:30 p.m. Fri. 15 CORNELL* 7:30 p.m. Sat. 16 COLUMBIA* 8:00 p.m. Fri. 22 at Pennsylvania...