Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kaufman noted that Editor Victor Navasky of the Nation had paraphrased most of what Ford wrote. Only 300 words of the 2,250-word article were taken verbatim from the manuscript. This brief borrowing of copyrighted material without the author's consent, said the court, was "fair use," a concept that allows limited quotation by journalists, critics, teachers and researchers. Dissenting Judge Thomas Meskill found a problem in the straightforward nature of the paraphrasing, however. "Copyright laws protect originality," he wrote. "They thus offer protection against a work that is substantially an unoriginal appropriation of the copyrighted work...
Bookstores offer similar fare. In addition to Gadney's book, there's Kennedy: The New Generation, which comes complete with a detailed family tree, a preface by Edward M. Kennedy, and hundreds of family photographs. Then there's William Manchester's Remembering Kennedy: One Brief Shining Moment, a self-styled "celebration of [Kennedy's] triumph." Manchester's conversational tone occasionally borders on the banal: "The White House is very white...You can scarcely believe that the place is inhabited. It is, because the White House is also a house." Although Manchester's book contains far more prose than the others...
During his brief stay in the Oval Office, Kennedy did not forget the University or the city. He brought to Washington a bevy of professors and local officials. He pushed for funding of an 88-unit public housing project in Central Square which now bears his name. And he picked Cambridgeport as the site of the space program's national headquarters. (The land, now Kendall Square, had been cleared for NASA headquarters, but work was halted when new President Lyndon B. Johnson moved the center to his home state of Texas...
...sure he had said enough. And in a way he had. Viet Nam is the ultimate buzz word in the American political lexicon, a form of telegraphic speech so laden with ominous meaning that it is assumed to speak volumes. Gibbons' declaration was as revealing as it was brief. For weeks Viet Nam has haunted the debate over Lebanon. But it was not until after the bombing of the Marine barracks that the full weight of the Viet Nam analogy fell on Lebanon...
...tragedy rolls on and is visited upon the daughter Imelda. Time accelerates, the narrative sections become more brief and informational, and there is only one resolution--a final tranquility--in the arrangement of Quinton bones at Kilneagh--"no matter how death came." And it is a sad picture...