Word: colcord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazine that simply couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a liberal government's House-organ or a conservative administration's shrill and ineffectual opponent. There's a fine chapter on Colonel House himself, the intellectual pimp of Wilsonian progressivism, and his relations with the journalist Lincoln Colcord. Lincoin Steffens is taken to pieces for walking into his "scientific" study of corruption with pretty clear notions of what he was going to find, then kindly put back together again for the, "humility" he apparently evinced at the end of his life after his conversion to Communism. It might...