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...more serious weakness was Lippmann's detachment from the mire of human affairs. Comfortable in the company of statesmen and scholars, he did not always comprehend popular emotions or their impact on public policy. Lippmann derided the cold war, arguing reasonably that the Soviet Union and China would inevitably dominate their "orbits" as the U.S. did its own. This view is now grudgingly echoed in U.S. foreign policy, but Lippmann's refusal to give weight to the explosive emotions of the cold war drew much criticism when tensions were at their peak. His writing style was elegant...
...Mills to disregard recklessly his reputation and career remains a mystery. Fanne herself, while perhaps garrulous to a fault (see box), has not provided much illumitiation. Largely guileless, enormously flattered by Mills' attentions, she is scarcely the stereotype of a designing woman. Indeed, she may not really comprehend the role she has played in the destruction of the man whom she still calls "Mr. Mills." What is certain is that what began as delicious Washington gossip has become a personal and professional tragedy in which no one in the capital can any longer find pleasurable titillation...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Harris gives no quarter to any journalist living or dead ("Reporters cannot believe things they cannot instantly absorb, jot down, add up and phone in ... The media treat with cyn icism or derision anything they cannot comprehend"). Since no information broadcast or printed is worth knowing, he says, people should simply ignore journalism. They will learn of really important matters through other means - conversation, literature, deduction, he suggests. Then Harris switches hyper bole in midflight, arguing that the press's preoccupation with Watergate caused it to ignore more important problems, such...
...door, City Manager Sullivan complimented me on my presentation. As if that were the point. Such maddening nerve! Such insufferable arrogance! Such inability to comprehend the scope of community needs and desperation...
...affair. Sam Ervin's committee won't last long. Nobody can really understand the complexities of the case. The House will never impeach. The Senate will never convict. At each turn, Nixon's contempt for the intelligence of the citizens he governed and his failure to comprehend their basic decency led him further into crime...