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Most of the reviews were respectful, but one-Walter Kerr's in the New York Times-was not. Since Kerr's is the most influential New York critic's voice, a closing notice was posted for the distraught cast, who thought they had a hit. But like Fred Astaire, who rallied everybody to save a show in the movie musical The Bandwagon (1953), Harris Yulin, who plays the villain, made an impassioned speech. "I think if we can stay around long enough," he said, "we can get some word of mouth going...
They did. New backers came to the rescue, all the actors voted to take the Equity minimum, and the stagehands volunteered to take big pay cuts. Says one prop man: "We figured they got a bad shot from that guy Kerr." Some help may have come too from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which suddenly made Watch seem disquietingly relevant. Says Jan Miner, who portrays the Washington matriarch who discovers that even her comfortable home is not safe from the fascist menace: "This play means as much...
When a railroad worker retires, the company traditionally gives him a gold watch. When Educational Statesman Clark Kerr retires later this month at 68, his nonprofit firm, the 15-member Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, will mark the occasion in its own special style, by issuing a 155-page report on a weighty and favorite theme: the equivocal prospects of U.S. higher education...
That penchant for the big picture and the balanced upbeat view reflects the style of Council Chairman Kerr, who taught industrial relations before becoming president of the University of California in 1958. It became the country's most prominent model of what Kerr called a "multiversity," a farflung, state-supported educational emporium that served society in all sorts of ways. While some students were majoring in winemaking or arts and crafts, others were pursuing advanced degrees in psychotherapy or plasma physics. During Kerr's reign, the University of California grew from two to eight main campuses, with...
Last year Kerr let it be known that he planned to retire from the council and devote his time to consulting, lecturing and writing a book on industrial relations. He will also pursue his hobby, growing apples in his Alta, Calif., orchard. The council decided that Kerr was an indispensable man: after five years and 35 comprehensive reports, it has announced it will close its doors at the end of this month...