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...ladylike was Kerr (pronounced "car")? Three times the New York Film Critics' Circle named her best actress prize, and two of those awards came for playing nuns, in Black Narcissus in 1947 and Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison a decade later. (The third was as the wife of sheepherder Robert Mitchum in the 1960 The Sundowners.) How congenial? In 1956 she was given a Hollywood bauble called the Golden Apple Award as Most Cooperative Actress...
...Pudding Theatricals burst onto the stage, praising Faust’s orange top and Pilbeam’s red tie, but criticizing Smith’s wardrobe. Before leaving the stage, they handed Faust an oversized pair of scissors with which to cut the ribbon. Following the ribbon cutting, Robert Brustein moderated a discussion, “Does Playwriting have a Future?” Brustein, the founder of the American Repertory Theatre, led a panel composed of playwrights John Guare, Melinda Lopez, Adam Rapp, and Vogel. Rapp said there is a “need for a revolution?...
...well.” The volumes available online now number in the tens of thousands, but Flecker said that many library users do not know about their availability. “We have not done very much outreach,” he said. Flecker said that Pforzheimer University Professor Robert C. Darnton ’60, who became the library’s director in July, has been “very supportive of the project and very involved.” Jan Merrill-Oldham, the Malloy-Rabinowitz preservation librarian, said she is excited by the implications of a universal...
...Indeed, Harvard has traditionally done better. I think not only of the student rebellions in the early 1800s under President Kirkland, but also of November 1966, when in the middle of the jungle war in Vietnam, Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, was mobbed on Mill St. outside Quincy House...
...That attitude led to quite a few excesses. Ten years ago, when a malfunctioning electric chair caused a prisoner's leather mask to burst into flames during his execution, Florida's Democratic Attorney General Robert Butterworth joked that the problems with "Old Sparky" - the chair's nickname - were actually a good deterrent to murder. Things didn't improve much after then Governor Jeb Bush and the Republicans took power in Tallahassee in 1999, especially at the Department of Juvenile Justice. In June of 2003, Omar Paisley, 17, an inmate at a juvenile detention center in Miami that was filled...