Word: david
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Karnes...
White, who returned to London last year after 27 years of TIME assignments in half a dozen capitals, found that British campaigns had hardly changed since he covered them for the Associated Press. White was with Foreign Secretary David Owen when that Labor candidate for a parliamentary seat in Plymouth, Devon, pumped constituents' hands on the historic quay where, on Sept. 6, 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for the New World. Owen, reports White, drew fewer bystanders than did the nearby Mayflower memorial plaque. "After all," says White, "it's the tourist season here...
Nothing is too big or too small for Bennett to put his hand to. He scribbles away at the obligatory manifestoes, digs in on fund raising, entertains the big-name circuit riders, like David Riesman, Jacques Barzun and Mortimer Adler, who drop by, and sends the fellows out on their own hustings, mostly to lecture at the three universities in the neighborhood: Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State. Then he taps out a memo: "Lost. Alice has asked us all to check whether her thin black-handled Henckels knife went home by mistake on a cake platter...
SOMEHOW a rocking chair seems out of place in the repertoire of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Vietnam correspondent and monomaniacal reporter that David Halberstam is. But after a few telltale early-warning signs in The Best and the Brightest, Halberstam has finally lapsed into his anecdotage. The Powers That Be ranks as the ultimate politico-media gossip book, with a thousand jolly stories and vivacious quotes about four big-time media institutions--Time magazine, CBS, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times--and how they have interacted with politics, mainly presidential, during the last century...
...Halberstam's hindsighted anecdotes put together. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s yin/yang books--1000 Days and The Imperial Presidency--described the consolidation of power in the Executive Office these last 40 years with much more historical veracity than Halberstam summons up. And, years before The Powers That Be, David Broder (The Party's Over) bemoaned the decay of the party structure, as television eliminated many functions of precinct workers, as civil service and federal aid programs cut out patronage as a source of party strength, and as pollsters, instead of party hacks, became Delphic Oracles on what the public...