Word: arthur
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...secular age, the moral purpose of education takes secular forms: racial integration, sex education, good citizenship. At the college level, the ambiguities become more complex. Should a morally objectionable person be allowed to teach? (Not Timothy Leary, said Harvard.) Should a morally objectionable doctrine be permitted? (Not Arthur Jensen's claims of racial differences in intelligence, said student protesters at Berkeley...
...Arthur L. Loeb, senior lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), will become acting master of Dudley House for this year, pending Corporation approval, Dean of the College John B Fox Jr. '59 said yesterday...
Before Wyman arrived at "Black Rock," as the 36-story CBS headquarters building is known, four others had lost out in the race to succeed Paley. The list of former heirs presumptive includes Presidents Frank Stanton, who served from 1946 until 1971, Charles Ireland (1971-72), Arthur Taylor (1972-76) and John Backe (1976-80). Stanton retired, Ireland died after less than a year on the job, and Taylor and Backe were fired...
Astaire and Rogers may have inspired Americans to dance, but Arthur Murray, 87, taught them. From touch dancing in a flyspecked, New York City dime-a-dance hall in 1913, to a nationwide chain of dance studios, to national prominence on television's The Arthur Murray Party, a ratings winner in the 1950s, to a seemingly choreographed game of doubles with his wife Kathryn on courts near their Hawaiian home below Diamond Head, the former Broadway hoofer has always kept both feet on the ground. His professional foxtrotting days behind him, although he still takes a turn...
...splendid re-creation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Angela Lansbury and George Hearn; Showtime has Paul Osborn's 1939 comedy Morning's at Seven, with four stars from its recent Broadway revival; and Home Box Office is airing Camelot, with Richard Harris as King Arthur in the throes of male menopause. Other transplanted Broadway shows will follow later this year: Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (Showtime), Medea with Zoe Caldwell and Judith Anderson (CBS Cable) and Long Day's Journey into Night with Ruby Dee and a trio of black actors...