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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...
...appointment becomes effective July 1, 1965. During 1964-65, Clive will be doing research as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford...
...Clive is known for his study, "Scotch Reviewers: The 'Edinburgh Review' 1802-1815," published in 1957. With Oscar Handlin, he edited Gottlieb Mittelbergor's "Journey to Pennsylvania in 1750." He is currently working on a volume entitled "The World of Macaulay...
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...