Word: name
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monkey Business which has just concluded a special one-day run at the Brattle was not the Marx Brothers movie of the same name which Halliday and Harvey thought they were buying, but an entirely different film about a chimpanzee who discovers a chemical formula that makes Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers act like ten-year-olds...
Early Life. Born May 27, 1911, in an apartment over his family's drugstore in Wallace, S. Dak., the second of four children, he inherited his name and his politics from his pharmacist father, who was persuaded into the Democratic Party after he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. As a prizewinning debater and bright student in high school and college (University of Minnesota '39), he acquired a volubility and an oratorical flourish that have stuck with him through the years. A victim of the Depression (he was forced to quit college for six years when his family...
...political and social world in which even his saviors seek to debase and enslave him. But he required that man revolt. He himself participated in the French underground during World War II, and in 1957 he quoted the words of Richard Hilary: "We were fighting this lie in the name of a half-truth." But he went on to say" "There are even occasions when a lie must be fought in the name of a quarter-truth. The quarter-truth...is called freedom. And freedom is the road, the only road, perfectibility...
...thought of a tunnel also, but as nothing more than an expensive, but foolproof, seasick remedy. "You may tell the French engineer," she said when one set of plans was brought to her attention, "that if he can accomplish it, I will give him my blessing in my own name and in the name of all the ladies of England." Tunneling actually began in 1880. But Parliament was swamped with protests. An opposition pamphlet painted the lurid picture: "Dover taken, the garrison butchered, the tunnel vomiting men of all arms, London invaded, England conquered." Britain's most respected...
...rejecting feelers from the ten-man syndicate that obtained a Boston franchise in the new American Football League, the Corporation, according to Whitlock, acted to keep the Harvard name free from association with professional athletics...