Word: guests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assault with intent to kill, is the author of Soul on Ice, a brilliant polemic on the Negro experience in America. He is also the abrasively articulate "Minister of Information" for the Black Panther movement. Thus Cleaver seemed to be an imaginative choice to appear as an unpaid guest lecturer in Social Analysis 139X, an experimental course in race relations which is being conducted this semester at the University of California at Berkeley...
After the assembly voted to censure university officials for the appointment, the board of regents settled on a compromise. Cleaver and the other guest speakers, said the board, will be limited to one lecture each. In the midst of the controversy, the University of Santa Clara invited the Panther professor to become a guest lecturer at its campus south of San Francisco...
...give the course suitable academic merit," said Robert Karplus, one of the BED members, "so we changed Cleaver's role to that of a live source." Cleaver was to lecture once a week; the other weekly lecture would be by a professor or another guest lecturer--such as the Oakland Chief of Police...
...silly season. Phyllis Diller, who bombed in an ABC sitchcom two years ago, will try a variety hour for NBC titled The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show. The format includes a twist: in one segment each week, she will interview a celebrity. But the real get-the-guest free-for-all should be ABC's Don Rickles Show. Rickles, the insult comic, will knock off a guest or two per weekly half-hour. ABC will also try TV's first weekly book musical, That's Life. For continuity, the one-hour show will have a regular star, Robert...
...Truman Capote report on capital punishment and two more Capote teleplays. In news, CBS and NBC will pioneer prime-time shows with a magazine format. CBS's 60 Minutes, to be seen on alternate Tuesdays, will widen the TV news spectrum to include the arts. Among the "guest columnists": Norman Mailer, Bishop Fulton Sheen and British Critic Kenneth Tynan. NBC's First Tuesday, a monthly two-hour program starting in January, will stress aggressive investigative reporting. The goal, says NBC News Vice President Richard Wald, is "insight, not just the slam-bang of things...