Word: struck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very first time he turned up at the taping of a Rowan and Martin show to begin reporting for this week's cover story, Los Angeles Correspondent Jim Brodhead was struck by the friendliness of everyone on the set. Even the guest stars acted like old buddies. Actor Van Johnson threw an arm over Jim's shoulders and asked: "When do you think I'll be wrapped up tonight...
...zany Marx Brothers ideas, struck the comics as just the man who could help them put their show together. And together, they worked up their format. They tried several titles: Put On, The Wacky World of Now, On the Funny Side of Life, Straight Up and Turn Left, High Camp. Then they hit on Laugh-In and pitched the show to the networks...
...hurricane of social unrest struck Columbia at a time when the University was deficient in the cement that binds an institution into a cohesive unit...
Institutional coherence is also affected by the presence or lack of a spirit of institutional self-confidence. Unhappily, despite her inherent strengths, the spring crisis struck Columbia when her self-confidence was shaken by the decline in relative position in AAUP rankings of graduate departments, the exclusion from a Ford Foundation grant for improvement of graduate studies, the resignations of a number of senior professors, and the Strickman filter incident...
...formal organization of both the administrative offices and the faculties apparently tends to discourage the cohesiveness that comes from shared responsibility in matters of university concern. We were struck by the constant recital of an apposition between the Administration and the faculty as rival bodies with separate interests, for it would seem to us that on educational questions the two should be essentially one. The lack of a University Senate and the division of the professors and other teachers into three or four faculties--quite apart from the professional schools--where other universities have a single Faculty of Arts...