Word: walkerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also permits the U.S. school to pick its own site instead of sending its students to crowded university towns where housing may be scarce and the influx of Americans may already be resented. "Because we don't do this," says Stanford's overseas director, Robert A. Walker, "we are popular with the communities in which we locate...
...draws up to 400 students, and the University is considering a sociology course taught in French, political science in German, comparative literature in French. The experience has knocked most stereotypes about foreigners out of student minds. "If you ask a returning student what he thinks of the Germans," says Walker, "he'll be insulted-and tell you there are all different kinds of Germans...
...defeat. No. 8-ranked Providence managed to get through the week unscathed -but not without a scare. The Friars had to score in the last 3 sec. to edge Illinois in the semifinals of Manhattan's Holiday Festival tournament. The final, by comparison, was a breeze: Guard Jim Walker poured in 50 points and Providence beat Boston College...
Criss has destroyed the second act by inexplicably cutting out the drama's most touching moment, Bill Walker's gruffly affectionate good-bye to Barbara and Barbara's subsequent plea to Peter Shirley, an old worker, for moral support. Because these moments have been thrown away, two characters are left half-created and Shaw's irony is lost...
...devotion to her work in the Salvation Army. Edward Zang plays an Adolphus Cusins actively in love with both Greek and Barbara, and as the scholar-lover he possesses a fine sense of Shavian wit. Terrence Currier as Snobby Price, the hypocritically reformed worker, and Lawrence Pressman as Bill Walker, the unreformed bully, skillfully carry their roles as far as their director will let them. Surrounded by these fine performers, Joan White seems weak as Lady Britomart. She fails to convey the strength and self-importance that one should expect from the sole manager of a large household...