Word: doren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers that smolder indignantly over the transgressions of others, said Estabrook, might well take a good look at their own: "Recently, the press became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...
Charles Van Doren. He personifies the lack of intellectual vitality and technological purpose that currently plagues America. He held a mirror for the rest...
...listing on Novelist Truman Capote says that he has "a foliage of blond and somehow defensive bangs." Marie ("The Body") McDonald is described as "one of the most remarkable wives in the country-she has had seven marriages but only three actual husbands." The entry on Charles Van Doren was hastily updated to include a reference to his October shame: "Suspended by NBC . . . pending the outcome of the congressional investigation of rigged quiz programs...
...part of the whole affair is the fact that Van Doren lied, and lied under oath. When he finally realized that he was caught in his lies, then, and then only, did he confess that he had made what he called a human mistake, and gave a maudlin explanation...
...people who sympathized with Van Doren seemed to completely overlook this perjury angle. Yet I wonder how these people would feel if they were on trial for a serious crime and, though innocent, found themselves convicted by the perjury of a witness. Would they shrug off that perjury as they shrugged off Van Doren's? I doubt...