Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cultural Center has been in hibernation for a year or so, so this can be construed as an attempt to firmly establish the existence of the Cultural Center both here and outside the University," Raymond J. McGuire '78, chairman of the center, said yesterday...
...public meetings or gathering, open to all without specific invitation, any attempt by a speaker to put all or part of his remarks off the record may be firmly and blandly ignored as an absurdity. In a large gathering--say 20 persons or more--but sponsored by a private organization, club, committee or the like, where the reporter is present in his role as a reporter but also as an invited guest, he must protest vigorously any attempt by a speaker to go off the record. He should point out that the meeting was scheduled as open to the press...
Schorr's decision to approach the book as a journalist was instinctive, but it was also wise. The attempt at objectivity enhances the book, providing the reader with a fuller story and a clearer perspective than mere reminiscence...
...exchange for the document, he did ask the publisher to donate to the Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press any money that Schorr would have received as a result of its publication. The Times pounced on this deal, decrying it as "commercial traffic in such documents...an attempt to launder the transaction by devoting the proceeds to high constitutional purposes...
Schorr's final, and most serious, mistake was his initial attempt to hide his own identity as the person responsible for the report's release. Schorr said he intended to write an introduction and commentary to accompany the report, thinking that others in the media, particularly The New York Times, were also planning to release the document. When he realized that he possessed the only copy, he decided on anonymity to protect his source. "I should have perceived that to make an act of disclosure a covert act in itself was a very serious mistake," Schorr said...