Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEEN relatively easy for people my age to deal with Nixon's duplicity, because sadly it came when we were young enough to look at high-level corruption as a fact of life. But for an older generation that had placed its faith in the integrity, if not the competence, of its public officials, the Watergate scandal was often traumatic...
...times, Mee seems self-indulgent, as when he describes at great length his battle with polio at age 14. But he inevitably goes on to link the personal with the political: his bout with polio serves both as an explanation of why he turned to writing--to apply his mind since his body wasn't working too well--and as an allegory for the condition of the country. Just as people recover from illness, Mee writes, so democratic republics will revive even if they lapse into oligarchy, as America has. The logical connection between one person's physical health...
...Adolph Ochs bought it in 1896, 45 years after the paper was founded by a Republican politician and a few months before it would have died of terminal mismanagement. Ochs (which he pronounced ox, its meaning in German), the Cincinnati-born son of German-Jewish immigrants, had at the age of 20 acquired the flagging Chattanooga Times and revived it. He set out to work a similar miracle on Park Row, the Times's home until he moved it north in 1904 to Longacre Square (which city fathers then renamed Times Square). Ochs banished fiction from the newspaper and declared...
...soldiers or guns, which were proscribed by his father in keeping with the Times's support of gun-control legislation. The elder Sulzberger liked to bring Punch and his sisters to the office on Sundays to meet the editors. Sister Judy, closest to Punch in age and temperament, is indirectly responsible for his intriguing nickname. His father marked the boy's birth with a verse* about how he had arrived "to play Punch to Judy's endless show...
...handle followed Punch through four expensive prep schools and into the Marines, which he joined at age 17 to his parents' distress. But the corps gave Sulzberger a hard edge of purpose, and after World War II service in the Philippines, he enrolled at Columbia College, made the dean's list his first semester and graduated in 1951. After uninspired tours as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal and the Times, Sulzberger took the first in his succession of management jobs at the family paper. He also took a Times secretary as his wife, had a son, Arthur...