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...undergraduates?plus some 100 non-enrolled auditors who may catch him for four years and never hear precisely the same lecture twice. Waiting for the lights to dim for his slides, Scully paces head down like a halfback about to take the field. Then he swings his 10-ft. pointer, whomps the screen as if to destroy a bad building, jabs it like a fencer to stress a point ?and buildings take on life. "What does a building want to be?" he will ask. "How does that building want to say hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: To Profess with a Passion | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...Royals pulled ahead 105-101 and Jones connected on his first two-pointer of the half. Moments later he laid in a rebound to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celtics Hand Cincinnati Second Playoff Victory | 3/28/1966 | See Source »

...from New York critics for bad acting, one might have expected Condemned to be over the actors' heads. Happily, this was not the case. Tom Rosqui is most impressive as he chills the audience with the power and insanity of Frantz's explosive moods. Priscilla Pointer deftly handles the shifts between the confident conniving, insecurity, and subservience' that is Leni. Edward Winter is pathetic enough as Werner, the play's only shallow character. And George Coulouris (not a regular member of the Company) is convincingly imperious as the father...

Author: By Thomas C. Horne, | Title: New York Theatre I: | 2/26/1966 | See Source »

...campaign to legalize the sale of beer ("Yours for a freer Oxford, where publicans can be law-abiding publicans six days a week"), he reported that a hit-run driver had killed his bird dog ("His name was Pete. He was just a dog, a 15-month-old pointer"), and he took an ad to thank the mayor for removing a sign that had been posted near his gate. In a tartly humorous public notice in the Weekly Eagle, he dressed down hunters who were invading his property: "The posted woods on my property inside the city limits of Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Growing Myth | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...Point officer worrying about growing corn for peasants!" Westmoreland, who is so gung-ho a West Pointer that he looks well-pressed in swimming trunks, does worry. "Today's soldier," he says, "must try to give, not take away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Gen. Westmoreland, The Guardians at the Gate | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

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