Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since the floor days of Lyndon Johnson and, for a brief while, the fitful reign of Oklahoma's late Democratic Senator Robert Kerr, has the U.S. Senate had anything close to a king. But now moving toward that position is a most unlikely person: Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen, 68, a politician of many ups and downs and backs and forths, whose only present power lever is that of leader of an underwhelming minority of 33 Republicans...
Into an elegant manse atop the white cliffs of England's south coast ventures Deborah Kerr, beautifully coiffed and dressed for a royal weekend, doing her primmest impersonation of a gentlewoman fallen upon difficult days. Indeed, no one would suspect that she is a convicted murderess but recently released from prison. So Dame Edith Evans hires Deborah to tend her garden -where nothing grows-and to keep an eye on Granddaughter Hayley Mills...
...Bagnold a framework on which to hang some illuminating asides about "the astonishment of life" and life's wasted possibilities. But Scriptwriter John Michael Hayes sticks doggedly to the substance of a story that was all shadows, revealing a sure instinct for the nonessential. In this version, Governess Kerr and Butler Mills are obviously made for each other and for a formula fadeout. The younger Mills, abrim with mental health and ebullient spirits and thus strikingly miscast, suggests that she alone knows what it is that makes this Garden grow. Potash? Peat moss? Lime? No, just gobs and gobs...
...Pressure. The facts of life at the great universities, says California's Clark Kerr, who runs one, are that "undergraduate students are restless, and parents think their children are being sacrificed on the altar of research." To some extent, they are. Private and Government research grants have speeded the output of badly needed Ph.D.s, but in the process, undergraduate teaching has been sadly neglected...
...Brewster said. It might even train volunteers for the Peace Corps or give harried students a year off to ponder their future. More important, though, Yale will remain geared to its smallish, liberal arts college-unlike Harvard with its proliferation of special research units, or the "multiversity" of Clark Kerr's California. "Even the pressure to serve the state," Brewster said, "must not lead the university to forfeit that credibility which belongs alone to those who answer only to the dictates of a conscientious intellect...