Word: clive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John L. Clive, a historian of England, has been appointed professor of History and Literature. He is the first person to hold the title since the death of eminent scholar Francis Otto Matthieson...
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A ne'er-do-well aristocrat (Denholm Elliott) tutors an ambitious junior clerk (Alan Bates) who yearns for Establishment status in Director Clive Donner's black comedy about hoary old England...
Later, the potholes in the plot tend to become troublesome, particularly in Bates's dealings with an oversexed landlady who helps him to conceal a corpse. But Director Clive Donner (The Guest, Genevieve) maneuvers between black comedy and melodrama with absorbing skill. Maintaining a light, steady touch on the story line, he deploys his camera for a series of witty asides, mocking views of upper-crust life as it is temptingly reproduced in the advertising on the lid of a cookie tin. And one ripe interlude at a hunt ball finds all the horsiest young socialites in full...
This time Ripley, Dave Benjamin, Clive Kileff, and either Chum Steele or Dean Peckham will be playing for Harvard in the singles. Steele and Peckham will form one doubles team and Ripley will team with Bob Inman...
Number five man Dean Peckham, bothered by a leg injury, dropped a 6-3, 6-4 decision to Kent Nelson for the Crimson's only other defeat. Clive Kileff at number three, Chum Steele, number four, and Bob Inman, number six, turned in quick straight-set victories. Inman, playing in his last match, turned in the day's quickest win, a 6-2, 6-1 mop-up job over Bob Dunlop...