Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nouveau pieces often seem so modern that one finds it hard to believe that they were modish sixty years ago. The swatches of material designed by Richard Riemerschmid would fit wonderfully in a modern interior. The chair and three-legged table by Hector Guimard, the leader of the Parisian branch of the international Art Nouveau movement, combine tasteful flourishes with beautifully smooth wood surfaces and simple, elegant forms. In an elaborate Guimard picture frame, though, the typical Nouveau tendency towards overdecoration is manifest...
...fundamental as these two problems may be, they are not novel. What is unusual is Douglass Cater's suggestion in his book, The Fourth Branch of Government, that something may be wrong with the machinery itself. His examination of Washington reporting as he has seen it in nine years as Washington editor of the Reporter suggests that the changes in Washington and in reporting in the last thirty years found the reporter unprepared and left him slightly dazed and greatly altered...
...Fourth Branch of Government is a critique, not a cure. The author argues that the old rule of objectivity has long since become a dead letter and would not be viable even if it could be revived. Nor is the shibboleth of "equal time, equal space" for conflicting views an adequate yardstick. What Cater asks is greater awareness within the press corps of the enormous power it holds and of the manifold ways in which that power and its holders can be used. The mechanical pitfalls in the way of commuting the "truth" from Washington to the reader who moves...
...Many functions of government have been taken over by a "Fourth Branch," the swollen federal bureaucracy, over which Congress has only remote and tenuous control...
Richard R. Baxter, assistant professor of Law, will become a full professor on July 1. Considered an authority on international law, Baxter is former chief of the international law branch of the Army Judge Advocate General's office...