Word: brinkley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeing Vice President Nelson Rockefeller set off a near fistfight when he grabbed a North Carolina delegate's Reagan placard. While New York Senator Jacob Javits delivered the week's lone liberal address, and Reagan delegates broke into noisy disapproval, NBC Anchor Men John Chancellor and David Brinkley contemplated a souvenir towel from the 1968 convention. With few thoughtful exceptions in the anchor booths-ABC's George McGovern on the vice presidency, CBS'S brisk Bill Moyers on virtually anything, Walter Cronkite on mercifully little for a change-television proved once again that it explains less...
...Authority. But audience measurement is an unrefined science in Britain, and the ITV'S news had long been considered by critics to be livelier and more imaginative than the starchy BBC, known in the trade as "Aunty." In 1972 Aunty tried to go trendy by installing a Huntley-Brinkley-type team of two anchor men, modernizing its set and spicing up its copy with breezy backstairs language. But when the old BBC starch was gone, what was left proved limp and ITV'S inroads continued...
...deserted stage at the other end of the room, an aloof Catherine Mackin was writing out her report for NBC with a green felt-tipped pen, before dusting her nose, brushing her hair, and readying for the call from David Brinkley...
More than that, though, there's the uncomfortable feeling of holding 75 anonymous students' fates in your hands. "For big courses [History 1653 is by far the biggest History course this year], there's a lot of pressure," Brinkley says. "It's very unpleasant to think of the effect you're having on a person's record...
People call Brinkley now and then to plead for mercy on a botched exam. Perhaps half the exams he gets are "almost illegible," and this year, for the first time, he thinks he will have to call a student in to read his exam out loud. He grades finals less harshly than hourlies, because they're so important. He complains of how big a proportion of the grading at Harvard is done by grad students...