Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is a compulsively fascinating 2½-hour dramatic typhoon in which John Osborne's voice-splenetic, grieving, raging-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life in the modern world has become a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson, 28, gives a performance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...
...weary of the arguments. Since the book came out, he has heard "the same questions 15 times," and the same answers have tumbled from...
These four-Vanderbilt's Alexander Heard, Emory's Sanford S. Atwood, Tulane's Herbert Longenecker and Duke's Douglas Knight-are all nationally oriented administrators who refuse to keep old Southern traditions at the cost of academic quality. Of the quartet, only Heard is from the South, showing how trustees of their schools reached out to seek the best available men anywhere. Yet Savannah-born Alex Heard, 48, is even more outspokenly critical of Southern educational provincialism than the three Northerners. "We in the South cannot duck behind the thought that if we show...
Self-Study. Political Scientist Heard came to Vanderbilt from the deanship of the University of North Carolina's graduate school. Taking over two years ago, he ordered a self-study in which 285 faculty and staff members produced a massive critical report. Heard read all 36 Ibs. of it, now uses it as a basis for measuring Vanderbilt's progress. He created a separate department of molecular biology and a division of bio-medical sciences, established a "distinguished professor" rank with high salaries to attract top talent, and overhauled the sociology department...
...Heard argues that "the most pervasive aspiration of our time is for greater human freedom," insists that a university must "maintain an open forum" and defend the academic freedom of both faculty and students. He also stresses service to nearby Negro colleges: Vanderbilt now has faculty-exchange programs with Nashville's Fisk University and the cross-town Meharry Medical School, one of the South's main sources of Negro doctors...