Word: kerr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equal to men's." With that ringing truism, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education last week launched its latest report, Opportunities for Women in Higher Education. "What a great start!" muttered one of the reporters assembled at a press conference in Boston. The commission's chairman, Clark Kerr, was unruffled. "We know that, of course," he said, "but we had to make the statement because not all men accept...
Begun nearly three years ago, the 282-page report has "more basic information and better statistics" than any of the commission's 19 previous studies, says Kerr, former president of the University of California. Women continue to constitute "the largest unused supply of superior intelligence in the United States." With each step up the academic ladder, their participation decreases. Women are 50.4% of high school graduates, 43% of college graduates, but only 13% of those receiving doctorates. Less than one-fourth of all college-level faculty members are women, only 8.6% full professors. The gap between the sexes...
...cleaned up respective loose ends, and on her hurried walk to embrace her lover, she is hit by a New York cabdriver. Enough? No, there's more, but no sense in giving it away. The saving grace is that the couple in question is Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, perfectly suited to each other and the roles, and thus this film has made grown people cry for more than twenty-five years. It is Love Story, but with talent, taste, and charm. Channel...
...England, which comes well towards the end, is the single instance where its three main participants show a full feeling for the melody and rhythm of their lines as well as the sense. Praise, then, for Michael Levin's Macduff, Alvah Stanley's Ross, and, above all, Philip Kerr's Malcolm. In this colloquy these three men talk to each other, listen to each other, and demonstrate their musicality. But it is a long, long time before we get to this beautifully spoken scene...
...Philip Kerr, with long-flowing locks and rich red garb, looks the proper--or, rather, improper--libertine. Wycherley made his Horner an allegro con brio role. Kerr plays it allegro all right, but his portrayal needs more brio. Still, he speaks crisply, and handles his walking-stick as though born with...