Word: chancellor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SPEAKING OF SIR THOMAS More, Samuel Johnson once wrote, "He was the person of the greatest virtue these islands ever produced." Saintliness can carry a man only so far, but in the case of Sir Thomas it seems to have carried him far enough: to the post of Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII. More's virtue found an uncongenial home in the Renaissance court, where moral rectitude was hardly a lasting recipe for success. Henry admired him, but these were difficult times; the King's friendships had to take second place to the King's lusts--or more...
...More twice before, certainly seems to know what he's doing this time around. In John Manulis's production at the Loeb Ex, Miller's More is surrounded by an aura of saintliness from the very beginning. While he delivers More's witticisms with neat comic timing, the Lord Chancellor's unearthly rectitude remains clearly predominant over his passion for life. We know from the first that here is a man not long for this world...
...Evening News office and retype his dog-eared files onto pages of a loose-leaf notebook. "I don't learn just by reading, so I rewrite everything and get it into my head," he reports. Similarly in the three weeks before E-day, NBC's John Chancellor covered four 12-in. by 17-in. cards with handwritten summaries of electoral and demographic facts. Chancellor's scribblings were all color-coded and organized into 51 tiny squares, one for each state and the District of Columbia. "It takes a long time," he says, "but it makes an anchor...
...that the evening was dull. After irate viewers had called NBC to complain, Chancellor apologized for noting, accurately as it happens, that Democrats are generally poorer and less well educated than Republicans: "If you're listening, Averell Harriman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Harvard, I hope you'll forgive me." CBS'S Dan Rather tried to brighten the proceedings with some well-honed metaphors. Assessing Gerald Ford's uncertain prospects in the Midwest, Rather declared: "You can pour water on the fire and call in the dogs, because the hunt will be over...
...that the U.S. Government and the International Monetary Fund would insist that the British government let the pound sink to $1.50 against the U.S. dollar as a condition for a desperately needed $3.9 billion IMF loan to Britain. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury William Simon, IMF officials and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey all protested that no detailed conditions for the loan have yet been negotiated. Even so, the pound fell 7½?in a mere two hours of wild trading the following day and ended up at an alltime closing...