Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Wiesner and FitzGerald ran as part of the12-person official University-nominated slate forthe six spots that opened on the 30 member Boardthis year. Two other University-nominatedcandidates were elected. They are Sen. Albert Gore'69 (D-Tenn.) and former Federal Reserve Boardmember Andrew F. Brimmer...
...famous bit in which God tries to convince a skeptical Noah that he should build an ark. But Cosby soon gravitated toward a more fertile subject: his childhood. In vivid, richly textured narratives, he told of cutting up with neighborhood characters like Old Weird Harold and Fat Albert, sharing a bed with his younger brother Russell, going to the hospital to get his tonsils out. No comic has ever entered a child's mind with so much empathy and gusto...
...groups of people, however, were not ignoring him at all. Children, for one, seemed to love him. While struggling in prime time, Cosby became a frequent guest on The Electric Company and Sesame Street, and created the critically acclaimed Saturday-morning cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. His other major fans were advertising executives. Attracted by his rapport with children, Jell-O hired Cosby in 1974 for a series of commercials in which he talked and mugged with youngsters eating Jell-O pudding. He was soon in demand for other TV spots, hawking products for Ford, Texas Instruments...
...dissertation committee, Reginald Damerell. In a 1985 book critical of the nation's education schools, Damerell noted that Cosby took virtually no classes, got course credit for appearing on Sesame Street and The Electric Company and wrote a dissertation that analyzed the impact of his own show, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. Degrees like Cosby's, Damerell charged, "do not attest to genuine academic achievement. They are empty credentials...
...most rigorous in the world," university officials insist he was given no special treatment. Cosby's dissertation, says Professor Louis Fischer, who was acting dean at the time, "was a very, very thorough, defensible study of the impact on children's values of the systematic watching of the Fat Albert program...