Word: clark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Bok named Professor of Law Robert C. Clark as Law School dean three weeks ago, he sent a similar message about academics--though the appointment had political, as well as pedagogical, overtones...
Three other freshmen--Cici Clark, Becky Gaffney and Elizabeth Hansen--also join the team this year. But most of the young players will Coach: Carole Kleinfelder Captains: Kate McAnaney, Lisi Baillieri Last Year: (12-2, 6-0) Home Games: Soldier's Field The Schedule...
Truman's aide Clark Clifford remembers that during a poker game with Winston Churchill, the old lion praised the U.S. but lamented one dreadful American lapse: "You people quit drinking after dinner." These days, maybe even sooner...
Since John Avildsen, who directed Rocky and The Karate Kid, is obviously not attracted to depressing subjects, you know up front that Lean on Me will lean heavily on Mailer's theorem in telling the Joe Clark story. The estimable Morgan Freeman plays the man who became the last-hope principal of crime- ridden, drug-soaked, graffiti-infested Eastside High in Paterson...
...Clark gained national attention -- including a TIME cover -- by bullying students and faculty into a state of moral grace and academic excellence. His well-publicized symbols of rule were a bullhorn and a baseball bat. His lessons included expelling 300 of the worst troublemakers en masse, chaining the school's doors to bar drug dealers and -- whooping audience delight here -- inveighing colorfully against laziness, incompetence and any politician or community leader who questioned his ways. But underneath all that, as the movie points out, were sweetness and caring: Clark redeeming a crack addict (Jermaine Hopkins), mending a mother-daughter conflict...