Word: barker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very location of the main campus$#151;only a few blocks away from the state capitol in Austin-was unfortunate, for the politicians have never been able to keep their hands off the faculty. As recently as 1925, faculty freedom was so shaky that Historian Eugene C. Barker solemnly warned: "It is not secret to my academic colleagues here or elsewhere that a call to the University of Texas arouses no elation, and that, for a long time, we have been losing more good scholars than we are replacing...
...four then wordlessly kicked him in the head and chest for about thirty seconds before running off. They did not rob him. Barker managed to make his way to Leverett, from where he was taken to Stillman Infirmary...
...organization, but it is the only one which has made much concerted effort to study the West as an entity. However, the West has not yet enough perspective on its past to be able to understand the present. The West is more than the "Howdy Country" that S. Omar Barker calls it, just as it deserves a better epitaph than the opening of this book, "They know the West lives on . . . in men wind over its prairies and the sunshine on its shores." The West deserves a more articulate voice to tell of its differences from the rest of America...
...lovers of opera, all have been touched on their civic pride, or calculate the potential profits to be had if Santa Fe becomes the Salzburg of the Southwest. "I don't know a damn thing about opera," said the Opera Association's president; Walter R. Barker, a former Chicago industrialist, "but I know a good thing when...
...Hootie. "When Kraft TV Theater last January scheduled a play about a rock-'n'-roll singer called The Singin' Idol, they wanted Elvis Presley for the part. Presley's manager, an ex-carnival barker called Colonel Tom Parker, said Elvis was too busy, instead touted Sands, who had traveled with Parker's road shows across the cow country. Kraft producers in New York flew Tommy in from Hollywood, where he was working on a TV show called Hometown Jamboree, and were pleased with his lush, throaty voice and easy acting style. After...