Word: kerrs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...People who were raised under liberal Republican and Democratic governors, who became blasé about the benefits of such administrations, and who voted for a change are now being awakened-by the closing of unemployment centers, the attempt to charge college tuition, the ouster of University of California President Kerr, and the appointment in all branches of the state government of conservative businessmen. By his actions, Reagan has redefined the word conservative, thus doing more for the Democratic Party than any ten Democratic speakers could...
...debate continued for 21 hours, with each regent airing his feelings about Kerr. Reagan was among those who proposed that the question of Kerr's status be postponed. "By the time everybody had had his say," recalls one, "it was like squeezing the toothpaste out of the tube-you can't get it back in-and it was perfectly obvious that there was a lack of confidence in Kerr." In the end, the 14 to 8 vote went against Kerr. After the decision, Meyer and Mrs. Chandler told Kerr of the vote, and asked on behalf...