Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...N.F.L.'s Detroit Lions were trying to cope with a mass training-camp holdout by veterans demanding pay increases that would put them on a par with untried bonus rookies. Among the balkers: All-N.F.L. Guards John Gordy and Ted Karras, Ends Darris McCord and Ron Kramer, Flanker Pat Studstill, and Defensive Back Bruce Maher. The Baltimore Colts were minus their two top pass receivers, Raymond Berry and Jimmy Orr, and the St. Louis Cardinals had two holdouts: Center Bob DeMarco and Split End Sonny Randle...
While harsh and sometimes cruel, student judgments do not necessarily downgrade the taskmasters. Slate contends that Assistant English Professor Joseph Kramer is "a hard grader and expects a lot from his students," yet gives him an A rating for his "perceptive and stimulating presentation of Shakespeare." Good teachers often rate student raves. The American University guide calls English Instructor Peter Scott "great, dynamic, interesting, interested, alert and careful when grading, the most valuable and worthy freshman English teacher at A.U." In general, the student judgments tend to be fair. "Students have a marvelous, ironic ability to see through bull," says...
Some Hollywood movies tried for foreign forms; for example, Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker, self-conscious despite Rod Steiger's virtuoso performance. Ship of Fools, by the overrated Stanley Kramer, was saved by the performances of three foreign stars, Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh and Oskar Werner. Nothing But a Man, on the other hand, was persuasively unpretentious: it took a stronger, warmer, more objective look at contemporary Negro life in the U.S. than any other film to date...
...Ephs' leading scorer is Kevin Sheenan, a hefty 6-6, 220 pound center. His substitute, Bill Unterucker, also stands 6-6, and promising sophomore forward Bill Drummond is 6-4. The rest of Williams' lineup consists of 6-2 forward Tom McPherson, 5-8 sophomore guard Jim Kramer, and 6-0 guard Irv Blond...
Perhaps a ship does not provide the best opportunities for photographic miracles. But Kramer, obsessed with his confessional technique, finds it too convenient to plop one tense black-and-white face in the middle of the cinemascope screen...