Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect. Betsy allowed as how she was attending classes regularly for the first time she could remember, now, during the strike to show that people other than fascists cared about such things as feedom of movement. By way of being sympathetic, I went with her to a class of Oscar Handlin's that turned out to deal with the innovative power of American cities around the turn of the century. I searched Professor Handlin's lecture for veiled references to the strike and found not a one. But at its finish, laying down his notes, the good professor waxed grim...
October 29: The SFAC held a special meeting to discuss several resolution on ROTC but was unable to agree on any of them. HUC representatives presented their case for removing ROTC's academic privileges. One Faculty member of SFAC--Oscar Handlin--proposed a wider resolution that would take away credit from ROTC and all other courses that were not "entirely academic in purpose...
December 17: The SFAC met for the first time since the Paine Hall sit-in and passed a motion asking for leniency for the demonstrators. Oscar Handlin walked out of the SFAC meeting after his resolution calling for stricter punishment was defeated...
SFAC did not need a clean-cut spokesman as much as it demanded a chairman who was acceptable to all sides. In the long debates, where Oscar Handlin lined up against Alex Keyssar, the Committee generated its own publicity. Glazier was a moderator more than a leader...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8:30-11:05 p.m.). Deborah Kerr, as Governess Anna Leonowens, squares off against Yul Brynner in his Oscar-winning performance as Siam's petulant but engaging monarch in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King...