Word: benning
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Veteran Press Critic Ben Bagdikian points out that "there have been more societies destroyed by the undisclosed corruption or incompetence of leaders than by any demoralization that comes from disclosure." Says a relaxed George Reedy, dean of Marquette University's journalism school: "For a while every reporter was out to be Woodward and Bernstein. Ten years ago, it was Tom Wolfe and participatory journalism. Fifteen or 20 years ago, it was James Reston. The fads come...
...SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE did well last week in rejecting President Ford's nomination of former Congressman Ben B. Blackburn of Georgia to head the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the federal agency responsible for overseeing the savings and loan industry. Blackburn's record during his four terms in Congress was that of an old-style racist--he opposed public housing subsidies, voted against open housing guarantees, and described voting as a privilege rather than a right. Since savings and loan associations make more than half the home mortgage loans nationally, and the Federal Home Loan Board is responsible for setting...
...seriously." From the observable evidence, there is considerable justice to all charges. There is not a single thing about Clark that could be considered lovable; tolerable would be stretching things a bit. Auditioning for a potato chip commercial, Clark insults the director and the product. Then he calls up Ben (Richard Benjamin), his nephew as well as his agent, to rail about not getting...
...posterity and residual affection as well as his 10% commission, Ben persists in trying to get his Uncle Willy to team up with Al Lewis just one last time. Lewis is really no easier to take than Clark. He is just a little quieter about it. At the first rehearsal the partners spar a little (Clark: "I heard your blood doesn't circulate." Lewis: "It circulates-not everywhere, but it circulates."), then get right down to the acrimony at hand. Clark tries to modify their most famous sketch. Lewis starts to act in all the ways Clark loved...
...then, within the framework of both the spirit and practice of this delicately calibrated model of American pluralism that I reject Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold's militant Jewish thrust in the Harvard community. And though I sympathize with Mr. Epstein's low-profile approach to Jewish militancy, I reject it equally...