Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without the famous product of my employer, the good, great and dynamic Bell System, all of the cover gentlemen would be in a pickle...
Mark Meyers, on the other hand, in "Officers and Gentlemen," a study of ROTC at Harvard, seems depressingly unfamiliar with his subject. An article which begins "In 1939 all Harvard ROTC cadets were probably polo players, academic bums, or both" promises little in the way of reasonable evaluation or accurate reporting; and Meyers keeps the promise in nine pages of off-centered insights and dull prose. Quite often he either has his facts wrong, as in his description of drill inspection, or he distorts them. What might have been an interesting statistical portrait of the typical cadet at Harvard...
...great films are represented-that is, all her 20th Century-Fox films: The Seven Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Bus Stop and so on. Milestones like The Misfits and Some Like It Hot, both United Artists pictures, are unexplainedly absent. With exaggerated curls and lumpish contours, she starts out in a four-girl chorus in A Ticket to Tomahawk. George Sanders in All About Eve tells her that he can see her "career rising in the east like the sun." Incongruously, she sits on a couch beside Jack Paar in Love Nest...
...that everyone who voted had thereby unanimously elected him to a new six-year term. So now, as all could see, he still had four years to go. With bland audacity, Duvalier received foreign newsmen last week at a press conference in Port-au-Prince's National Palace. "Gentlemen," he said in cool, precise English, "I wish to take this opportunity to assure our friends in the Western Hemisphere that Haiti will continue under my administration as a peaceful, nonaggressive nation...
Wadsworth House and Hicks House, the other two colonial domestic structures belonging to the University, are typical works of gentlemen designers and are very representative of the 18th century. Only one Harvard building of this period, Hollis Hall, has been attributed to a professional builder and even that is uncertain. Hollis was designed with polish and excellently constructed but still might be the handiwork of a well-versed amateur...