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...rising to meet a crisis before it reaches insane proportions, much of an archivist's dream can no longer be made into reality: many films are permanently lost, and Hollywood's history includes stories that fill a modern-day film anthropologist with disgust. Directors rarely had the right to edit their own films, and it became common practice for studios to re-cut and mangle films they thought potentially commercial...
...have asked somebody to write a book saying Communism is good for you." Within a year, a few teachers had succumbed to his arguments, and he now has some 60 authors and editors under contract. Half of them are full professors, 14 head departments in their schools, eleven also edit scholarly journals. Among them are Dostoevsky Scholar Edward Wasiolek, head of the University of Chicago's comparative-literature program, and Milton Specialist John T. Shawcross of the University of Wisconsin...
...senior consultant to the Lou Harris Poll (1959-61), is now chairman of the Select Committee on Western Hemisphere Immigration, a senior research consultant to the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, and wheelhorse of NBC's nonstaff election consultants. Between times, Scammon has, somehow, managed to edit all five volumes of America Votes, a classic reference work on U.S. elections, and collaborate on This U.S.A., a lively, statistically based debunking of the doomcrier's view of U.S. problems...
...maladjustments and adjustments between his client and the publics upon whom the client is dependent for his socially sound activity." More simply, Author Robert Heilbroner observes: "Public relations is Dale Carnegie writ large." The good p.r. man is, above all, a specialist in communications. He tries to write or edit messages so that they will carry a certain meaning; he tries to report and sometimes stage-manage situations so that the public will see his client in a certain light. He must be able to handle words and-equally-he must know when to keep silent. Naturally...
...freshman could be rough; and there were 260 more applicants every year than there were places. Two out of three undergraduates crammed for their courses at the tutoring services on Mass. Ave. Most offered canned answers for exams in the well-known courses and were willing to "edit" (which sometimes meant ghostwrite) papers...