Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theodore Dreiser, that shaggy old lion of American letters, sat in a library reference room reading St. Thomas Aquinas. Next to Dreiser sat Miss Fannie Hurst, author. They started to talk, and so fascinated was Dreiser by her remarks on Aquinas that he insisted on continuing the conversation even though she had to catch a plane to St. Louis. Dreiser, as Author Hurst now tells it, flew right along with her, but not before asking her husband if he had any objections. He did not. which leads Author Hurst to remark: "This throws a revealing light on my wonderful kind...
President Lowell, in his Report to the University, stated: "All alumni are urged to refrain from offering an inducement to any schoolboy to enter Harvard, when the compelling motive is his athletic skill." The remark was taken with a grain of salt by loyal sons. After all, Harvard was the Rose Bowl champion, wasn...
...dixie has its troubles in the Harvard area, modern jazz is not much better off. Yet during the past few years people have noticed a remarkable internal shift in Harvard jazz activity from the day when it was "all dixie with a modern jazz splinter" to today, when a student can remark: "Dixie's joe-college stuff; you find it in your state universities, or maybe at Brown, but it's out of place here." In the opinion of most observers Steve Kuhn, more than any other force, has caused this change to a modern jazz approach from...
Less surely handled by Director Peter Glenville or either of the principals, Me and the Colonel would tip over into maudlin sociology or an embarrassing joke. But Actor Kaye, in his first completely straight role, keeps such a clear grasp of Jacobowsky's innate strength that every sly remark creeps through with the force of wisdom as well as the bite of wit. And Germany's Jürgens, curling back his lip and swirling his eyes as he exults, "I sniff battle-I'm alive again!" accomplishes the tricky task of making Actress Maurey...
...mark of Bob Murphy's professionalism that he left with Salam singing his praises. Such was Murphy's total performance that another U.S. career diplomat in the Middle East was moved to remark: "Bob proves the ultimate value of professionalism in diplomacy-proves the case for a Foreign Service career. We can't do without men like...