Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debut giving a lecture on the war, complete with chalk and blackboard. He was such a hit that against his better judgment he was soon shifted to television news. "It was a time," he says, "when no self-respecting newsman wanted anything to do with this new electronic beast...
Cronkite was not long in getting the beast under control. In 1952, CBS News Director Sig Mickelson picked him to anchor the network's coverage of the national political conventions, and he did such a workmanlike job that he found himself in the top rank of newscasters. Suddenly he was a star. He began to have his own news shows-Twentieth Century and Eyewitness to History...
...book's impatient thesis is that man ignorantly keeps trying to make a monkey out of the poor beast. "Apes," the Morrises write, "have been eaten, worshipped, hunted, hated, loved, mocked, feared, persecuted, protected, shot into space, featured on television, infected with syphilis and trained to collect flowers...
Come off it, lads. A rat's a rat, and hanging a blue ribbon on the beast won't turn him into a prize Pomeranian...
...Supreme Court undeniably functions as a political beast at times, stepping only so far as the climate will permit. Such considerations have been the major factor in stalling a decision on HUAC's constitutionality since one was first sought fifteen years ago. Also the present investigation -- in which an actual piece of legislation is involved for a change -- is not the best for the ACLU's purposes...