Word: porter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conflict in John Osborne's play is clear and classic: a revolutionary battles the world. Jimmy Porter rampages against his elders because they don't respect the working class; he challenges the working class because they're apathetic about Edwardian gentlemen; he fights his women. They don't love the loser enough...
...most original aspect of Jimmy Porter's character is his willingness to exploit emotions. He'll do anything say anything, to provoke his wife or his mistress or his pal to a strong response. So he burns people with irons and brags about old mistresses in front of new ones. He plays the trumpet terribly and eternally. All so that someone will react with a hit or a kiss. Silberg missed that recklessness...
Ernest Kitzinger, a leading art historian at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., has been named the first A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard...
...Porter Professorship -- honoring the late Harvard archaeologist -- was bequeathed to the University by Mrs. Porter on her death in 1963. Poerter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts when he died in 1933, caused important revisions in the history of medieval architecture through his archaeological research...
Other winners were Dr. Keith R. Porter, professor of Biology - studies in cell fine structure; Dr. Jakob Rosenberg, professor of Fine Arts, emeritus -- Renaissance and Baroque art in northern Europe; Dr. Donald Stone, Jr., assistant professor of Romance Languages and Literatures- - French drama, 1500-1630; and Dr. John Tate, professor of Mathematics -- arithemetic algebraic geometry