Word: bayley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be used for classes, conferences and other academic and related gatherings which require a large seating capacity, Bayley F. Mason '51, associate dean for resources, said yesterday...
...names. He lied with such boldness that he distracted a nation and shot it full of distrust. Few regret it more than journalists. By offering the print of page-one articles and the air-time of lead stories, American news media fed McCarthy the publicity he needed. Edwin R. Bayley focuses on that process in his new book, McCarthy and the Press. In a world seemingly vulnerable to media-made images, he offers the comforting notion that today's news reporters are better prepared to combat demagogy...
...Bayley's narrative spotlights McCarthy's four years at the fore-front of American politics. It begins with newspaper coverage of McCarthy's infamous 1950 speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Where McCarthy started his campaign of slander by stating that more than 200 known card-carrying Communists filled posts in the State Department. Bayley ends his account with the coverage of the "Army-McCarthy hearings," where McCarthy saw his public image crippled, precipitating his censure by the Senate. These four years saw certain newspapers carrying over 15 stories a day featuring McCarthy. Dredging up every sort of reporting...
...Bayley does more, however, than weave a narrative based on spicy excerpts. He constructs an argument about the role of the press during "the McCarthy years" and, ultimately, about the role of the press today. McCarthy and the Press repeatedly faults the vast majority of journalists for failing to add "news analysis"--an organized presentation of relevant facts or ideas--to their mechanical reporting of McCarthy's accusations, and he argues that most journalists displayed a singular lack of curiosity during McCarthy's first years of invective. They failed, for example, even to find out the identities of those card...
...heroine of William Mayne's The Patchwork Cat (Knopf; $8.95) is Tabby by name: stubborn by nature and depicted by Nicola Bayley. One morning, she is suddenly robbed of her favorite quilt by well-meaning owners. The snatchwork of the patchwork takes the disgruntled feline from garbage can to city dump, where she rescues the beloved bedding from rats and begins the long journey home. For several books, Bayley has been competing with other illustrators for the most lifelike cat postures and psychology. This year Tabby wins by a whisker...