Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Muscle. O'Brian's column ignores the conventions to which most TV critics subscribe. He seldom, if ever, indulges in lengthy think pieces; he finds he can contain his reaction to any given show or performer in brief, sharp, personal observations. And TV being TV, his prevailing attitude is aggressively hostile: he frowns on most of what he sees. Steve Allen, a TV performer who has repetitively borne the brunt of O'Brian's scorn, once assayed the critical content of a single column and counted 33 pans against only three bits of praise...
...York, where the late George Jean Nathan, then theater critic for the Journal-American, helped him get a job on the paper in 1949. At the time, O'Brian had been the Associated Press's drama critic and sometime radio critic for six years. After a brief stint as a Journal-American rewrite man, O'Brian was assigned to do a radio-TV column. This was in the days when everybody who had a TV set was watching four to five hours a night and wanted to talk about it the next morning. O'Brian suddenly...
...result of extensive criticism among its staff and the entire Harvard community, the Yearbook has decided to scrap its traditional brief review of each undergraduate activity, sport, and organization in favor of a sharp focus on outstanding aspects of the various fields, according to Benning M. Grice, Jr. '65, managing editor...
...above brief, but excellent, raison d'etre of Harvard College was extracted from a recent "Official Register of Harvard University" (Aug.1960). A second extraction from the "Register," which is, like the first, valuable and relevant to the current Doty Committee controvrsy, is, "... the heart if Harvard tradition is freedom... [One] aspect is academic freedom, the freedom of the faculty to search for truth as they see it. The Harvard seal is Veritas. [Another] aspect is freedom for the student...
...wants to do is sit in a corner and give birth." She submits to sterilization at her husband's urging, only to learn that he has got another woman with child. Her pumpkin shell bursts. Alienated from husband, family and self, she flees into a brief affair, at last learns to accept her husband as flawed, faithless, tender, selfish and, for her, inevitable...