Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Free Speech riots at Berkeley, student protests have upset life at dozens of campuses across the nation. Yet one eminent educator firmly believes that the California protest signified not so much a wave of the future as the beginning of an end. He should know; he is Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California...
Speaking to a conference on student political movements in Puerto Rico last week, Kerr argued that campus revolts have their own limitations and, even when successful, carry "the seeds of their own destruction." To have any effect, a revolt needs an issue to galvanize action, a leader to capitalize on that issue, and a tactic to exploit it. But even finding a focus for rebellion, said Kerr, can be a "wearying process." Compared with the strongly ideological political activism of the 1930s, the "issue-by-issue protest movement" of the 1960s will prove to be more immediately dramatic and troublesome...
...various forms of skulduggery. But at the same time, he also expects (or wants) them to be above the more blatant forms of corruption. That is why Adam Clayton Powell's flamboyant peccadilloes, Senator Thomas Dodd's shifty manipulations of "campaign funds" and the late Senator Robert Kerr's wheeling and dealing with Bobby Baker have agitated two congressional committees and large sections of public opinion about the ethics of Capitol Hill. The central question is posed by Powell's crass claim that "everybody else is doing...
...Ever since the New York Herald Tribune folded last summer, the Times has fretted about the power of its critic to make or break shows. One answer, believes Managing Editor Clifton Daniel, might be to have two theater critics. So, starting next fall, incumbent Critic Walter Kerr, 53, will write a more leisurely Sunday column. Barnes will take over daily reviewing...
...Kerr and Barnes should certainly differ. Meticulous and didactic, Kerr writes a tightly organized review, though lately he has been uncharacteristically diffident and even ambivalent-as if he, too, were rather worried about expressing too firm an opinion of a show. Clive Barnes, on the other hand, is a superenthusiastic Englishman who turns out sprawling, effusive copy with heavy injections of his own personality. He has expanded his jurisdiction beyond that of any previous dance critic by reviewing dance halls and discothèques, films and the opening of the Mets. Baseball players, he concluded, are no match, in grace...