Word: doren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mark Van Doren, poet, emeritus professor of English, Columbia University Litt.D...
...very different reasons, the two names that may lastingly identify the 1959-60 TV season are Charles Van Doren and David Susskind. With his now-famed, melodramatic confession ("I was deeply involved in a deception"). Van Doren exposed not only the quiz fakes but the underlying shoddiness of the TV industry, started an ostentatious if temporary move toward purity. Susskind, who emerged again as the season's most prolific producer, demonstrated that the most important problem- more important than quizzes, payola and canned laughter-is good programing...
...Charles Van Doren...
Charles Van Doren is appointed Preacher to the University. To quell the angry shouting of a hastily formed "Divinitas" group of alumni, Van Doren issues a statement explaining that he had "peered over the brink of nothingness" and had "seen God." President Pusey terms the appointment, "the logical extreme of a policy of deconversion...