Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They played The Star-Spangled Banner, and then Nixon and his Soviet hosts walked down the length of the huge hall. It was a splendid moment...
What will we remember about the Watergate Spring? Banner newspaper headlines daily, introducing new charges and personalities into the scandal. Another maudlin television speech from behind Presidential Seal. John Mitchell, once stern-faced on the ramparts, the hero of Mayday 1971, reduced to a petty criminal, a hang-dog and pathetic figure. The names, a new one every day: Dean, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Kliendienst, Krogh, Barker, Sturgis, Alch, McCord, Liddy, Hunt, Chapin, Caulfield. Piecing together the stories, the leaks and the testimony, waiting for that last link, the one piece of firm evidence: "The president ordered me to do this...
Although Carl Sims, former editor of The Bay State Banner, has not yet completed his Nieman year, he feels free to call it "the most valuable year of my professional life." Sims, who covered urban and ghetto affairs prior to coming to Harvard, said that the year gave him free rein to bounce some of the "gut feeling" he picked up as a reporter off of academic specialists in race relations, ghetto politics and urban sociology...
...academic formalism rooted in the poetry of Eliot and Pound. They replaced this sterile stuff with a free-wheeling experiential American poetic idiom inspired by the more cautious William Carlos Williams. Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," with its Whitmanesque catalogues of the poet's own undeniably hellish experience, became a banner around which the new American poets rallied...
...President Nixon is blind and deaf to the evil which permeates his administration, the American people are not. The day-by-day developments of the scandal, while not all screaming banner-headline material, suggest an underlying insidiousness that the President will be unable to ignore when public hearings begin next Tuesday...