Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schneider told a story about how, when the New York newspapers were on strike, he saw Kerr jump up and leave the opening of Arnold Wesker's The Kitchen before curtain calls, as if Kerr had a review to write. "And he had nothing whatsoever to be rushing home for," Schneider said, "except Mrs. Kerr...
...Walter Kerr came in for the lion's share of last night's discussion, pro and con -- most of it con. "Mr. Kerr happens to be at this moment Louis the Fourteenth," explained Kopit, who joined his fellow panelists in reluctantly confessing Kerr to be the best of the New York daily reviewers...
...Kerr is essentially a crowd-pleaser," Simon said. "I take my hat off to him." Then, as an afterthought, Simon conceded that "I never wear...
Kennedy still wavered on tax reduction, was almost talked out of it by three powerful forces: Oklahoma's late Senator Robert Kerr; Cabinet members; and Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, then the U.S.'s Ambassador to India, whose "long shadow had fallen across the White House." Finally, the tide was turned by businessmen. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York late in 1962, Kennedy extolled the good sense of tax cuts and got such a rousing reception from 2,000 business leaders that he himself became convinced and proceeded to press enthusiastically for reductions. Said...
Like Berkeley, U.C.L.A. is simply one of nine theoretically equal campuses of California's vast state university system. Although he admires and respects Cal President Clark Kerr, at meetings of the regents has made it clear that Kerr "doesn't speak for me," and has successfully fought for more U.C.L.A. autonomy in such matters as budget making and seeking federal funds on its own. Proud of his school's progress so far, Murphy envisions U.C.L.A. becoming a model modern counterpart of the great medieval universities, blending quality and quantity, serving as an intellectual laboratory for an increasingly...