Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...least of which was the chance to grow at our own pace and to pursue, with no guilt whatsoever, the totally irrelevant. "If we had the last of the wine, the time when you could construct your own cubicle, then we were lucky," says television's Dick Cavett, 33. "I look back now on my college days as a time of fantastic luxury." Above all, we were the last generation to accept without question-or to pretend to accept-the traditional American values of work, order and patriotism...
...Dick Gregory, D.H., comedian...
...depressively afraid that people would hate him. They did. They also hated the play, which folded in Philadelphia after 17 performances. "It was not a pleasant experience," admits Mike. "I behaved very badly toward Elaine." She abandoned performing for about six years. Mike, as he says, "might have been Dick Cavett today" except for Saint Subber's stomach. The producer owned a play by a TV comedy writer named Neil Simon. He remembered a funnyman who might just be able to direct. "Mike had misgivings and doubts," Saint Subber recalls. "He said, 'Why do you come to me?' I said...
Mike was Burton's kind of boy. As the Liz-Dick scandale deepened during the filming of Cleopatra, Burton recalls, "Ninety percent of our friends avoided our eyes. Mike flew to Rome from New York to be with us." Nichols stayed by Elizabeth's side when Burton went off to make another film. Favors like that one remembers. In 1966, the Welshman and his lady were signed for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Elizabeth insisted on Nichols as director. Virginia Woolf could have been a mini-Cleopatra, but its be-low-the-belt punches intrigued critics and audiences...
...responsible for luring Yovicsin to Harvard was former coach Dick Harlow, who in 11 seasons had been six games over 500. Thanks to Harlow, it was Yovicsin who was coaching the Crimson when Williams routed Harvard by seven touchdowns in a pre-season scrimmage...