Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...named managing editor. "He had a passion for perfection," says a newsman. "He just wanted a great paper in a hurry." The tabloid Sun-Times (circ. 534,000) did not become a great paper under Akers, but it did become a dedicated one; Akers encouraged depth reporting in such areas as education and religion, before most other dailies got around to it. Among his expose triumphs, he uncovered a "flower fund" in the books of a Cook County treasurer who was running for governor. When the Sun-Times showed that the fund was an assessment on county employees for campaign...
These priceless oils were buried under layers of ignorance, neglect and anonymity," explains Neumann. Tintoretto's Flagellation, with all the master's mannerist mystery of depth, stage lighting and evanescent flesh tones, had been attributed to a copyist. Titian's Toilet was supposedly by his son Orazio, although the supple shoulder line and illusory intermingling of the young woman's ripply tresses with her fluid sleeve reveals the artist's lustrous trademark...
...hour-long CBS special news report was offered as an analysis in depth of the Dominican revolution. And from the start there was no question about the depth of the reporters' feelings. "In an era in which the U.S. would like to be in the position of clasping hands with Latin Americans," intoned Moderator Charles Kuralt, "we are in the position of frisking them instead. After signing with ceremony solemn covenants in which we promised not to intervene in other nations of this hemi sphere, we are today intervening in the very kitchens and sitting rooms...
Meaning in the Depths. Author O'Connor was a verbal magician whose phrases flamed like matches in the dark, revealing a face in a flash (a child's features contorted with grief into "a puzzle of small red lumps"), a life in a single insight ("a sniveler after the ineffable"). But the motivation of character and the imitation of life did not finally interest Author O'Connor. "The meaning of a story," she once wrote, "begins at a depth where these things have been exhausted...
Villanova countered with Livers' hurdles win, victories by Noel Carroll in the 880 (1:50.9), and Earl Horner in the 100 and 220, but the Wildcats just didn't have the depth...