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Colleagues say Korda is fond of role playing. After the opening of the movie The Man Who Would Be King, friends found him playing the sergeant major. Once he strode into a sales convention in full fox-hunting gear, blowing a hunting horn and proceeding to present a book on the Maryland hunting set. Says one associate: "It was not humor. It was Korda's chance to display his sense of costume and class...
Robert G. Gardner '48, chairman of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department, is fond of describing Vis Stud as a "small department with limited resources." The serious extent of these limitations was made aware to its faculty members Wednesday, as they voted, 9-1, to support a plan of fundamental reorganization in the department including opening admission to all undergraduates...
...aggressive defensive line and blitzing linebackers pressured Bateman and lightened the secondary's burden. Tommy Joyce, named ABC Defensive Player of the Game, slowed Brown's running game, while sophomores Bob Baggot and Steve Kaseta rolled down Bateman when he rolled out for a pass as he was so fond of doing...
David Moore is outstanding as Bob, the only fully developed character in the play. Moore's sensitivity to the interaction of his seven apartment-mates ties the production together, saving it from the shallow script. His fond acceptance of their emotional flaws become our own, and we begin to tolerate their dramatic flaws as well...
...about politicians," Reeves admits. "I don't feel any great obligation to recount their many and varied personal and professional virtues. That is what they, or the taxpayers, are paying for in the salaries and fees of press secretaries, media advisers and advertising agencies." He picked up his fond contempt for politicos from the fetid municipal air of Jersey City, where he grew up as the son of a county judge. "There were two groups of politicians there," Reeves recalls, "those who sold out and those who went to jail...