Word: bliven
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Died. Bruce Bliven, 87, author and influential editor of the New Republic (1930-55), which he made a showcase for liberal thinkers and humanists; after suffering a broken hip in a fall; in Palo Alto, Calif
...flair for bright commentary. For the purchase price of $380,000 (plus a somewhat larger amount in pending taxes), Peretz has also acquired a special responsibility: to maintain the unusual character that the New Republic has acquired in American journalism since earlier writers like Walter Lippmann, Bruce Bliven and Edmund Wilson began burnishing its pages...