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	Charles Van Doren - MSN Encarta
		Charles Van Doren, born in 1926, American educator and television (TV) personality, who lost both careers when it was revealed to the public in 1959 that he had cheated as a contestant on a TV quiz show in the late 1950s.
		Born Charles Lincoln Van Doren in New York City, he was raised in a distinguished literary household: His father, Mark Van Doren, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, literary critic, and professor; his mother was a writer and editor; and his uncle, Carl Van Doren, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
		Van Doren was educated at Saint John's College, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761584515/Van_Doren_Charles.html (418 words)

	Quiz Show
		Van Doren, while clearly tempted by the money, is apparently persuaded by the rationalization that his success will spur more young people to take intellectual pursuits more seriously.
		Van Doren is the quintessential WASP intellectual from a New England, Ivy League intellectual family.
		Father Mark Van Doren had the typical intellectual’s contemptuous disdain for the medium of television, and in fact did not even own a TV set until Charlie gave him one for his birthday in one of the scenes.
	www.whitealert.com /quiz_show.htm (1124 words)

	Quiz Show
		He is Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), not only a professor at Columbia, and author of lofty subjects, but also the son of Mark Van Doren, professor and author.
		Van Doren appears to have too much integrity, as he says he couldn't possibly go along with that...it wouldn't be honest.
		Van Doren's resignation was accepted at Columbia, and he went on to become editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica for the next two decades.
	www.gothicrevue.com /QuizShow.html (1084 words)

	Quiz Show Essay by Hadley Ajana
		Scofield is a marvel, managing in one brief performance to convey so much about an American as particular as Mark Van Doren, and so much that is universal between accomplished fathers and their sons.” When the son finally admits to having flown too far on borrowed wings, the confession has a double meaning.
		Van Doren is forced to give up a lucrative TV contract and admit his culpability, ending his academic career at Colombia (though he later went on to edit and write many well-respected books).
		Van Doren is still stigmatized.) Like Van Doren, Stempel is revealed as a fraud, but Tuturrro succeeds in putting over such a petty and unlikable character that his exposure is virtually a non-event.
	www.theintrovertzcoach.com /quiz_show_review.html (1211 words)

	TIME.com: THE REMARKABLE VAN DORENS -- Feb. 11, 1957 -- Page 1
		FOR the friends and family of Charles Van Doren, most of the fascination of his mental marathon is not what he says—which is fascinating enough—but the fact that he can say anything at all before the implacable eye of the television camera.
		Charles Van Doren sticks together, in the opinion of Critic Clifton Fadiman, because of his family heritage.
		Charles Lucius Van Doren was a kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,809056,00.html (693 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE QUIZ-SHOW SCANDAL
		Van Doren the man and the sinner became Van Doren the symptom and symbol of a national venality.
		Van Doren was “formed by a world which condones the betrayal of truth for the sake of wealth and power.
		Van Doren has lived a quiet life and an honorable one as an editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, as an executive of the company, and as a modest champion of educational reform.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1989/4/1989_4_76.shtml (5658 words)

	The American Experience \| Quiz Show Scandal \| People & Events \| Charles Van Doren
		His mother, Dorothy Van Doren, was a novelist and writer, and his uncle, Carl Van Doren, was a noted historian who had written a biography of Ben Franklin.
		Van Doren himself was a serious and successful academic with a broad range of interests.
		Van Doren went so far as to offer to appear in front of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, which was investigating the quiz-show scandal, to assert his innocence.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/quizshow/peopleevents/pande02.html (822 words)

	Booknotes
		To me the important thing about Charles Van Doren is it shows what television could do; that it could take overnight someone who had never been on television, no one knew his name, and within two weeks make him into a national hero, someone who could run for the presidency, almost like the Perot phenomenon.
		It wants Van Doren, graceful, charming and winning, to beat the dreaded Herb Stempel, who is considered to be sort of unattractive, lower-class, whatever.
		It led to congressional hearings on it, in which finally Van Doren, who had protested his innocence, protested his innocence, protested his innocence, had to go before the country, scion of this great family, and say, "What I did was wrong.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript?ProgramID=1157 (7714 words)

	Steve Feffer, The Wizards of Quiz
		On the other side is CHARLES VAN DOREN, about the same age as Herb, good looking, all-American boy, wearing a perfectly tailored suit.
		Van Doren, and he beats you, whatever he wins will be deducted from the money you have.
		Well, Dorothy Van Doren, the novelist of the recent The Country Wife is my mother, and Carl Van Doren, the biographer of Benjamin Franklin, is my uncle.
	www.wmich.edu /~english/fac/fefferplay2.htm (988 words)

	"Van Doren" and "Redford." - what is wrong with director Robert Redford's film 'Quiz Show' about Columbia Univ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A typical Charles answer was: "When I was a child, one of my hobbies was geography [or astronomy, or genealogy], and I have a good memory." Well, maybe so.
		Robert Redford's opinion, which he heightened in the script submitted to him, was that Charles sought out the crooked world of TV and the quiz show because he sought revenge of some sort on his father's Olympian status.
		Of course Mark Van Doren was a towering presence.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n21_v46/ai_15930042 (827 words)

	Quiz Show Movie Quotes - Atlyrics.com
		Mark Van Doren: If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
		Mark Van Doren: Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.
		Charles Van Doren: I've stood on the shoulders of life and I've never gotten down into the dirt to build, to erect a foundation of my own.
	www.atlyrics.com /quotes/q/quizshow.html (355 words)

	Van Doren, Mark - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Van Doren, Mark 1894-1973, American poet and critic, b.
		As a poet Van Doren was deeply influenced by Wordsworth.
		Magnolia Restorations Recipient of Glencoe Preservation Award For Howard Van Doren Shaw House Renovation; - Award Ceremony in Recognition of National Preservation Week -.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-vand1orenm1.html (328 words)

	Booknotes Transcript
		What the country doesn't know is that both Stempel and Van Doren have been given the answers to the questions, and it's all manipulated.
		It began with the "The $64,000 Question," and then in the final manifestation, it was "Twenty-One" with Van Doren and Stempel and a guy named Dan Enright as the fixer and a guy named Al Freedman as his sub-fixer.
		It was a shattering moment for many Americans, particularly because Van Doren was an intellectual all-star, coming from that family with that charm.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1157 (7646 words)

	Twenty One - 1956-58 NBC-TV and Quiz Show
		Charles Van Doren, a college professor, is a contestant that entered the Twenty One show, November 28, 1956, and defeated champion Herb Stempel on December 5.
		Charles Van Doren first denied, as most contestants did, that he had been given the questions and answers in advance.
		Charles came from one of the most prominent literary families in the country.
	www.geocities.com /alcus2/21.html (1093 words)

	Amazon.ca: Quiz Show (Widescreen): DVD: Robert Redford,John Turturro,Rob Morrow,Ralph Fiennes,Paul Scofield,David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Herbie Stempel (John Turturro) and Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes) are polar opposites in terms of looks and religion but what they have in common is a vast knowledge of what can be called facts or trivia depending on your point of view.
		As Van Doren's father observes, if you are going to ask a question worth $64,000 it should be about the meaning of life.
		Van Doren also played Vivienne Nearing three times to a tie before losing (and had beaten her husband Victor earlier that year).
	www.amazon.ca /Quiz-Show-Widescreen-John-Turturro/dp/6305428522 (3084 words)

	Quiz Show Scandals
		From the moment Van Doren walked onto the set of Twenty One on 28 November 1956 for his first face-off against a high-IQ eccentric named Herbert Stempel, he proved himself a telegenic natural.
		In the isolation booth, Van Doren managed to engage the spectator's sympathy by sharing his mental concentration.
		Finally, on 2 November 1959, with tension mounting in anticipation of Van Doren's appearance to answer questions (the irony was lost on no one), the chastened professor fessed up.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/Q/htmlQ/quizshowsca/quizshowsca.htm (2102 words)

	Quiz Show (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I was growing up during the Charles Van Doren scandal, and I remember his face on the front page of the paper and my mother crying.
		Van Doren was a dream contestant - good-looking, educated, with a beautiful speaking voice - and captivated the country with his intelligence.
		But, as Van Doren says while verbally sparring with his dad, "It was mine own." It sure was, and he went into oblivion because of it.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0110932 (474 words)

	Charles Van Doren Biography (TV Personality) — Infoplease.com
		Charles Van Doren is the contestant famous for his fraudulent appearances on the 1950s TV quiz show
		However, in 1959 Van Doren admitted to a House of Representatives committee that he had been "involved, deeply involved, in a deception." Show producers had provided him with answers and had coached him on how to act to milk maximum drama out of his appearances.
		Though Van Doren said he had told himself he was helping to inspire youngsters, his reputation was ruined, and his name became synonymous with the quiz show scandals of the 1950s.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/charlesvandoren.html (386 words)

	"Quiz Show" and its Depiction of Columbia University
		Charlie Van Doren -- His love for teaching at CU and writing novels is put on hold so that he can be a contestant on Quiz Show.
		Van Doren's playful yet dry sense of humor is also evident in both.
		His fear of anti-Semitism is evident in both his claims and his actions that continue throughout the movie as Stempel attempts to justify his loss to Charles Van Doren.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~molouns/amst450/cu/quizshow.html (929 words)

	"The Truth Is the Only Thing with Which a Man Can Live": Quiz Show Contestant Charles Van Doren Publicly Confesses to ...
		As a result of his appearances as a triumphant contestant on one of the genre’s most popular programs, Twenty-one, Charles Van Doren, an instructor in the English department of Columbia University and son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, tried to use his newfound celebrity to promote values of “true education” to the television-viewing public.
		In the following testimony to a Congressional subcommittee, Van Doren dramatically confessed a long-suppressed secret: Twenty-one had been rigged and he had willingly, though with pained ambivalence, participated in the deception.
		Van Doren, along with seventeen other contestants, subsequently received a suspended sentence for lying to a grand jury.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/6566 (3413 words)

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		Charles Van Doren has scrupulously avoided publicity for four decades.
		Adler and Eliot, Charles Van Doren, Anthony Burgess, Clifton Fadiman, the Easton
		David M. Takitaki, Resident Charles Van Doren Scholar.
	www.angelfire.com /ab7/zer4/search0c8b.html (326 words)

	Amazon.com: A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future: Books: Charles Van Doren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Van Doren's provocative, encyclopedic guide to great thinkers, concepts and philosophical trends was a BOMC and History Book Club selection in cloth.
		Van Doren, once editorial director of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, has produced a miniature encyclopedia, organized to show that there is progress in knowledge.
		Van Doren is both famous and infamous and that of course adds to the allure, but the first time I read this(easily 15 or more years ago) I had not heard of Charles Van Doren.
	www.amazon.com /History-Knowledge-Past-Present-Future/dp/0345373162 (1777 words)

	NOTES from me
		Van Doren was the guy who racked up a then-staggering $138,000 on Twenty-One in 1957, becoming a national celebrity and — as you can see — even making the cover of Time.
		The interesting thing about Jennings' legitimate streak of wins was that it showed it wasn't necessary to rig a game show to create a Charles Van Doren.
		He was everything the producers of Twenty-One had wanted Charles Van Doren and their other big winners to be — charming, self-effacing, bright...and the kind of guy for whom America could root.
	www.povonline.com /notes/Notes120504.htm (777 words)

	How to Read a Book
		Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren’s How to Read a Book is a practical guide for reading and comprehending any book, whether fiction or non-fiction.
		Adler and Van Doren have outlined four levels of reading: elementary, inspectional, analytical, and syntopical (this last is their own coined phrase).
		Not much time in the book is spent on this level of reading, except to point out the sad fact that it cannot be taken for granted, as the number of remedial reading courses for college freshmen indicate.
	www.theatlasphere.com /columns/printer_060120-evans-read-a-book.php (1128 words)

	Amazon.ca: How to Read a Book: Books: Mortimer J. Adler,Charles van Doren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		However, I was what Adler and Van Doren would call a "widely-read" person, which is to say that I should have been pitied rather than respected.
		Adler and Van Doren say a lot in this book that I agree with, and previous reviewers have done a good job of summarizing the levels of reading, and the activities associated with them.
		For example, Adler and Van Doren say that the "truth" of a work of fiction is determined by its beauty to the reader, and the reader should be able to point out in the book the source of this beauty.
	www.amazon.ca /How-Read-Book-Mortimer-Adler/dp/0671212095 (1445 words)

	Quiz Shows of the Fifties - Twenty One, $64,000 Question. Price is Right and more
		Producer Freedman approached a young attractive English instructor at Columbia University, Charles Van Doren, about becoming a player on Twenty-One.
		As Van Doren kept winning, his popularity grew until he became a recognized celebrity.
		Van Doren, now a broken and humiliated man, gave one last public performance - testifying before the Congress about his complicity in the deception.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /quizshow.htm (886 words)

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