Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This outside pressure creates an inside pressure: academic conformity among thousands of bystanding professors. Historian Russell Kirk has denounced the academic community's "voluntary conformity to pragmatic smugness and the popular shibboleths of the day." In the words of a Stanford professor, "No one wants the boat rocked, and freedom with responsibility usually means keeping your mouth shut...
President Grayson Kirk approved the UDC proposal in a letter to the undergraduates, but said that Columbia students would have to prove their responsibility and maturity by refraining from riots and panty raids in the future. Panty raids have often been the only way for Columbia boys to meet students from Barnard College, a girls school across the street on Broadway and 116th...
...illustrated in an incident of the Korean war. Three U.S. soldiers, a sergeant and two privates, rescue a North Korean airman (Enrique Magalona) downed in an inlet. When they radio headquarters, they receive a command worded with discretion but ice-clear in intention; shoot the prisoner. The sergeant (Kirk Douglas) brusquely orders the privates to do it. The first (Robert Walker) refuses. The second (Nick Adams) raises his pistol-but cannot pull the trigger. The sergeant explodes. A private replies: "Why not shoot him yourself, sir? And look him right in the eye." The sergeant, a small-bore sadist, raises...
...entertainers ate in the upstairs dining room with Jack and Jackie Kennedy, Lee Radziwill, British Ambassador David Ormsby-Gore and his wife. Then they were joined by a passel of Kennedy relatives and the Kirk Douglases. Cinemactor Douglas, like Carol and Burns, had entertained at the Democratic gala. Carol and George did a few comedy routines, Douglas presented a song that he sang when auditioning for a Broadway show 20 years ago (he failed to get the part), and most of the Irish present joined in for a chorus of The Wearing of the Green...
...armory, where 6,000 contributors had turned out to see a splendid show, organized by Broadway-Composer Richard Adler. The huge hall was happily decorated with 4,000 red. white and blue balloons, and there were plenty of Kennedys for the guests to gander at. M.C.s Gene Kelly and Kirk Douglas mixed wisecracks (said Douglas, "I've heard a rumor that a movie is to be made about Brother Edward, to be called 'I Was a Teen-Age Senator' ") with tributes to the President, and introduced a parade of first-rate entertainers. Yves Montand sang his French...