Word: guestly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seniors may deposit suggestions for Class Day guest speaker in House dining halls and the CRIMSON office until Friday. The Shah of Iran spoke last year...
...annual Circus Saints and Sinners show was a tall guy with a lopsided grin who told a few on himself. "In case you have forgotten, I'm the man who wound up a little more than 300,000 heartbeats from the presidency," quipped Senator Edmund Mus-Icie, the guest of honor. However, he pointed out, "There's only one thing lower than a defeated candidate for Vice President-and that's a successful one." Besides, "I have some reason to believe I can get an honorary degree from Macalester College...
...Goldman's diplomatic effort came to total disaster at the famous June 1965 White House Festival of the Arts. Incensed by then about the Viet Nam war and always snobbishly intolerant of the presidential manner, a number of intellectuals noisily stayed away. Among those who did come, one guest-New York Critic Dwight Macdonald-cheekily circulated an anti-Johnson petition at the gathering. Another, John Hersey, chose to read pointed excerpts from his book Hiroshima despite fierce White House displeasure ("The President and I," said Mrs. Johnson, "do not want this man to come here and read these passages...
...black comedy (al beit in a somewhat more sensitive and sophisticated form) fills the air. On an upcoming Rowan and Martin show, the entire cast appears in black face for one number; Chelsea Brown, the show's sassy Negro comedienne, naturally is in white face, as is Guest Tony Curtis. For the snapper, Judy Carne turns to Chelsea and says: "I have only been black for five minutes, but I'm already fed up with you white chicks...
...Smothers Brothers are also delving into black humor on their own CBS program. The other week, Tommy Smothers, having invited his first Negro house guest, stumbled over whether to refer to him as a Negro, colored person or black. Finally, upon the guest's arrival, he stammered: "Hi, boy-er, I mean, Bill." When the visit ended, Tommy said, "I would really like to have you over more often." Bill exited with: "Well, that's mighty white...