Word: nickerson
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Leonard Frey as Quilty is too young, and he simply doesn't have Peter Sellers' comic talent. Dorothy Loudon as Mrs. Haze does a fairly good Shelley Winters imitation, but she overplays a part that is overwritten in the first place. Denise Nickerson as Lolita just can't project the sexual attraction of the nymphet, and can't sing either...
After one of the most elaborate and involved selection processes ever devised, it comes as no surprise that the five Fellows of the Corporation-two lawyers, two professors, and a retired New York businessman-would pick their candidate from inside the University. Corporation member Albert M. Nickerson expressed his fears early in November that it might take an outsider "three years to settle into the job, and by that time he could be hamstrung by the rapid pace of events...
...lists of names presented to student and Faculty groups have been too bulky for any detailed discussion of specific candidates. Often the lists have been incomplete. In some cases, the suggested names have been misleading; for instance, Mr. Nickerson last week asked a group of students to comment on four persons, two of whom had been dropped from consideration...
...been looking at the list with an eye toward whom we can check off," added Albert L. Nickerson '33, another Fellow. "I think we can now start looking again at the positive aspects of the people who are still on the list. We don't expect to get a man who has all the qualifications we're looking for, but we do want the man who will be able to find people who can handle things where he is weak or at least a man who is conscious of his own weakness there," he added...
...Corporation members who have the University's final authority in housing matters-George F. Bennett '33 and Albert L. Nickerson '33-then stepped out of Commencement ceremonies with the demonstrators to discuss their original demand: that Harvard set aside the Treeland site adjoining Peabody Terrace for low-income housing...