Word: basse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words. One hears the tawny lion roar, the insects swarm and the tiger leap for the first time on earth. Frederic Waldman conducts the Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, and Soprano Judith Raskin, as Gabriel, sings brilliantly, at times eclipsing her more earthbound fellow archangels, Tenor John McCollum and Bass Chester Watson...
...comment on "culture shock" distorts--deliberately, I suspect--what I wrote. His second paragraph of critisms is contradicted by Mr. Bass's letter. His third supports my argument, applauding the shapelessness of the Nieman program, but fails to deal with my complaint that the Nieman office could do much more to open Harvard's door...
...Bass's letter is the most intelligent, serious, and substantive of the lot. He makes some valid criticisms of my article. However, I am reluctant to credit the Nieman year with the development of 14 Pulitzer prize-winners, as the program inducts only the best young newspapermen after they are well on their...
There are many more examples than these. Jack Bass and Bob Maynard, quoted in Ardery's article, can speak for themselves. Here, however, it must be noted that Jack also included a course in American poetry in his first term (and what direct relevance Merle Fainsod's course has to covering the South Carolina political scene is beyond me). And Bob took course in fine arts and music. In fact, in leaving out these two courses from Maynard's list, Ardery seemed to be setting him up as the specialist he was obviously not designed to represent in the article...
...purpose of the Nieman program, as outlined in the original grant establishing it, is "to promote and elevate standards of journalism and educate persons deemed especially qualified." Fourteen Pulitizer Prize winners among former Nieman Fellows indicates the program has not been unsuccessful. Jack Bass Nieman Fellow...