Word: kirkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners of their products, and in return for United Artist assistance, share their profits with the company. Among those who have taken advantage of the United Artist idea: Rita Hayworth, Hecht-Lancaster, Stanley Kramer, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Robert Mitchum, Otto Preminger, Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Kirk Douglas, Errol Flynn, Abbott and Costello, Cary Grant. Reasons for liking the U.A. formula: i) U.A. does not interfere in production, 2) the artist can make a lot of money, 3) because of capital gains, he can keep...
...article appeared in a debate on "Conservatism vs. Liberalism." Russell Kirk, defending the conservative point of view, cited "the mind of Hawthorne," which, he said, was "suspicious of change, skeptical of progress, convinced of the terrible power of sin," as the prototype of American Conservatism. He said that liberal reforms do not of necessity bring "prosperity, security, and liberty," and that they tend "to make us identical units in a monolithic society...
...Student Council next week will sponsor a debate between Russell Kirk, author and educator, and Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, and in addition, a student-faculty symposium, both on academic freedom...
William C. Brady II '57, who planned the two programs, said that he had selected speakers to present both conservative and liberal viewpoints. Kirk, who taught at Michigan State before obtaining a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in the British Isles, is author of "The Conservative Mind," "A Program for Conservatism," and editor of the "Conservative Review...
...Kirk defined academic freedom as "a body of prescriptive rights assessed by scholars and teachers in educational institutions to help protect them against the hazards incident to the pursuit of truth...