Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, You Can't Take It With You is still propelled by the zany character of the Sycamore family. Grandfather (Donald Moffat) is a business dropout who has devoted 35 years to raising a small colony of snakes in a goldfish tank in the living room. He is related to uncribbed spirits and surrounded by live-in transients. These errant moles of home industry manufacture and explode Fourth-of-July fireworks unperiodically, do ostrichy parodies of ballet, and massacre Beethoven on the xylophone. It does not dawn...
...river. Tarzan just cuddles up to his monkey." Murray, who plays a riverboat captain, also feels miscast in this, his first big Hollywood role. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing here," he moans. "I have to take a tranquilizer even to feed my goldfish, and in this movie I've got to act with a lion, two monkeys and a snake. I'm firing my agent just as soon as I can get to a post office...
...Samuel Beckett, played both the Venice and New York fests. It is a stark, black-and-white portrait of an old man who awaits death in a small, lonely room. Seeking absolute solitude, he turns out his cat and dog, closes the curtains, covers the parrot cage and goldfish bowl with his coat, and blacks out the room's only mirror. Finally, he destroys the last reference to the world in which he has lived, a packet of old photographs. But he cannot escape himself, and as he lifts his eyes to the barren wall before him, he comes...
This recent "teach-in" so corrupts any reasonable definition of teaching that only the most servile mind old accept such an outrageous misnomer. If it is the best we can offer, then the students involved might better spend their time swallowing goldfish and stuffing phone booths. Denaid W. Riegle, Jr. Harvard Business School
...rather comfortably, by the time the class of '65 held its 50th reunion. At Tufts, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach declared that he was all for protest as long as it was meaningful, but "it becomes pointless, silly and even harmful when it serves only as a substitute for goldfish swallowing or a panty raid." Katzenbach cautioned against forming rigid convictions on insufficient evidence, and recalled Oliver Cromwell's words to the Church of Scotland: "My brethren, I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken." Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy sounded less...