Word: victor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard supporters are Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; George C. Homans '32, professor of Sociology; Willard V. O. Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; and Israel Scheffler, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Philosophy...
...argument goes) any publicity would be damaging to the persons being judged. Perhaps so--though even here, at least in appointments and promotions, the universities of other nations are much less fearful of publicity than American ones. Besides, special procedures could be followed for these matters. Victor C. Chen John F. Kennedy School of Government
...original, Victor McLaglen played the informer as a wounded bull. Mayfield portrays him as a dray horse, faithfully clopping to the fadeout. The Informer was consistently Irish. If Up Tight's cast is Negro, the script is in straight blackface, with such lines as "Nonviolence is a self-defeating mother." Its bogus climaxes are reminiscent of the '30s' group-theater lyricism, as when Tank wails at a smeltery, "You noisy beautiful bastard, remember me?", or when he roars, "The city is killing me ... it's killing both of us." Because Up Tight was filmed...
...perorations, Kazantzakis' widow points out that her husband has been compared with Victor Hugo, adding with feminine fondness, "He is closer to Homer." The remark is not quite as outrageous as it sounds. Kazantzakis' 33,333-line poem, also called The Odyssey, is a 20th century epic in which a contemporary Ulysses savors the world's sunny delights while heading inexorably for a polar night of the spirit. In the letters, however, Kazantzakis settles for a shrewder, certainly earthier judgment of himself. "I am not a Romantic in revolt," he wrote, "nor a mystic scorning life...
Critical judgment is the basis of all good reporting. In Robert F. Kennedy: The Myth and the Man (Trident Press, $6.95), Victor Lasky is simply critical. His singleminded judgment is that ev erything Robert Kennedy ever did was ill-motivated or wrong - usually both. To back that up, he has compiled 407 pages of quotations and anecdotes, mostly from newspapers, magazines, books and anonymous journalists and politicians. For example, as evidence that Kennedy was not far enough left on an issue, he quotes Ramparts. To bear wit ness that Kennedy was not far enough right, he cites William Buckley...