Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Harvard professors were awarded honorary degrees yesterday by Columbia University President Grayson Kirk...
...Kirk, when conferring these and 40 other degrees said, "College leaders must stand against legislators and small interest groups. Men are needed who will tell professors they are neglecting the educational needs of students by offering "too many courses which correspond more to the specialized professional interests of the individual professors...
...fostering of understanding of "the ethical principles which ought to regulate human begins" is necessary if we are to avoid destruction by men "who are essentially barbarian, despite impressive technical proficiency," Kirk continues...
...high twice on the same old vermouth. Act of Love shows that the third time around can be a distinctly sobering experience. The hero of the picture is a G.I. intended by the script to be just like every other G.I., and played by Kirk Douglas with aggressive averageness. The heroine is the girl of a censor's dreams-a nice-girl prostitute. Trying to be both at once, Actress Dany Robin seems most of the time like nobody at all, but she is one of the most appetizing new French dishes set before U.S. moviegoers in recent years...
...Kirk and Dany meet in Paris toward the end of World War II. Kirk asks her to go to bed with him. She says no. Thereupon Kirk does what the script seems to think any red-blooded American boy would do: he asks her to marry him. After that, they do a lot of touring around Paris while the camera takes travel-poster shots. In the end, Kirk's C.O. refuses to approve his marriage to the girl, and though Kirk fakes a marriage permit, he is picked up by MPs on the way to his wedding. Moviegoers...