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...Angelo of Philip Kerr, who was graduated from Harvard a decade ago and who shone so splendidly in the Roman plays here last summer, is the most memorable feature of this Measure for Measure. Kerr is visually arresting--garbed in black, craggy of mien, and as completely bald as Sibelius. He provides a remarkable portrait of a strict-constructionist (who loves to carry a lawbook in his hand), of a principled man rather surprised at his own slide into treachery. In view of the play's "happy" ending. Kerr quite rightly makes Angelo not an arch-villain but a probably...
...Clark Kerr, LL.D., educator. James A. Michener, LL.D., author...
What would normally be in store for Kate? Literarily, she might in this day and age wind up embalmed as the heroine of a Jean Kerr comedy, or a case history for Women's Lib (Anatomy is not Destiny, etc.). In life, Doris Lessing notes, Kate's future would be a slow, desperate struggle against the signs of decay-"tinting her hair, keeping her weight down, following the fashions carefully so that she would be smart but not mutton dressed as lamb...
...Unionists with a penny in every pond and the Catholics who simply boycotted everything," declared Phyllis Kerr, a canvasser for Northern Ireland's moderate Alliance Party last week. "There just had to be a day when something came cracking down the middle." That day may finally be dawning in Ulster politics. After four years of violence, more and more people seem to be coming around to the belief that a strong political center-something that has seldom existed in Northern Ireland-could heal the wounds created by religious polarization...
...years ago the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education found that three-fifths of American colleges and universities were either in financial trouble or headed for it. Commission Chairman Clark Kerr declared it the "greatest crisis in the 330 years since the founding of Harvard." Since then, most institutions have made heroic attempts to control costs, and the efforts appear to have paid off. This week the commission will issue a follow-up study, which concludes that in general, colleges and universities have stopped their slide toward bankruptcy, though the depression in higher education has by no means ended...