Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clue to the real cause of the difficulty. It seems clear that in deciding on matters such as the one at hand, the Committee on Educational Policy is way out of its depth. The only Harvard group qualified to rule on the Cum Laude degree is, of course, the Gilbert and Sullivan society. David Monroe Miller A.B., Cum Laude, Harvard...
...Many things have to be done. They're going to have to be done by the citizens themselves. How much are businessmen taking an active role? And what about labor leaders? Where are they?" Bobby Kennedy's questions were angrily answered by Carl Gilbert, board chairman of the Gillette Co., who appeared on the same television show a night later...
...Said Gilbert: "The Attorney General is too wise a man not to know that private citizens do not have any effective means to determine whether or not widespread corruption exists in government. The powers of the state government appear to be about to move into the hands of a Governor* who received strong Kennedy support. The police commissioner of Boston is an ex-FBI man. The U.S. attorney is a Kennedy appointee. Between the President and the Attorney General, all of the law-enforcement agencies of the United States Government are available. I hope that we are entitled to take...
...Gilbert Co., whose long-beloved Erector Set has been updated to include rocket gantries and moon vehicles, has a flying model plane, the Skyflash. Its gasoline motor has a new type of silencer to reduce the hornet's-nest buzz, and its wings and fuselage are made of high-impact plastic, which is strong, flexible and shatterproof...
...Kenneth Tigar, whose comic talents I have always held in great respect, has directed this new Yeomen, and I suppose I must reluctantly assume that he is therefore the man responsible for its quips and cranks. Mr. Tigar, if he is indeed the man responsible, has got Gilbert and Sullivan all wrong. What little magic there is in any G & S show, you see, comes in the best of its songs, which--like the madrigals and the ballads--are at once both charming pieces of music and very gentle spoofs of themselves. The rest of the show, however--the jokes...