Word: bevan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every right because Mayer has assembled a truly magnificent little cast, distinguished by an incredible variety of voices. Foremost among the voices is that of Yolande Bevan, who lifts the chorus to her own extraordinary level, but not much less distinctive are the speaking styles of Edward Finnegan and Donald Marye, as Cadmus and Teiresias. The best performance of the lot, however, has to be that by Patricia Cutts, who bravely circumvents the sort of theatrics to be expected in a woman who has killed her son and partaken of his remains...
...Judge Values. With the help of Psychologist John Bevan, who left his associate professorship at Davidson, Kadel got 281 acres of seashore land from the city of St. Petersburg. Two fund-raising drives in St. Petersburg netted $4,000,000; the Presbyterians chipped in with $3,300,000. Florida Presbyterian opened in 1960, now has 810 students and a campus of functional modern buildings worth $14 million...
Kadel and Bevan hired teachers from established universities with the promise that they would come in on a genuinely creative experiment in education. Now F.P.C.'s faculty numbers 61, three-fourths of them Ph.D.s earning an average of $12,549 a year. Under the guidance of Bevan, who became dean, the school developed a liberal-arts curriculum anchored to a four-year core program focusing in successive years on world developments, Western civilization, Asian culture and the Christian heritage. The objective of the core program and its related science, language and elective courses is to form students...
...same theory influenced his handing the Ministry of Technology to burly Frank Cousins, a former Ban-the-Bomber and ex-general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers Union. No Cabinet post, but a respectful parliamentary secretaryship went to Jennie Lee, 60, widow of the late Nye Bevan...
Eden's love and respect for Churchill are dominated in the book by exasperation at a leader who did not always heed his right-hand man. "W. rang up in a rage because Bevan and Attlee had taken my view on how to handle De Gaulle. I didn't budge an inch." When Churchill frowned on an Eden proposal for a strong postwar France and hinted that the two of them "might be coming to a break," Eden decided that the old man was losing his balance...