Word: endeavorment
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There are flaws in Barnouw's massive work. The author is clearly not as comfortable in dealing with the literary value of entertainment broadcasts, or with aesthetic endeavor in general; his eulogies of Norman Corwin, Archibald MacLeish and Paddy Chayefsky are embarassing, though they might not have been so if he'd have honed cleanly to a sociological viewpoint. His large chunks of political history often show an unsubstantiated leftist bias, particularly in his coverage of World War II political tensions...
...national interest. This is especially true of the U.S.: unlike Britain's Parliament, Congress does not have an automatic right to question members of the Executive Branch, who wield increasing power over the lives of Americans. Such scrutiny falls to the press, which must be unhindered in its honest endeavor to seek out the truth. This pursuit surely outranks the squeamishness and even the reputations of public officials?unless it can be proved beyond cavil that the national interest is seriously endangered. And that takes a lot of proving...
...case of the aborted "Project Nassau," Agnew quoted a subcommittee of the House Commerce Commission which reported "The filming of sham events, manipulated of sound tracks, and the like. Underlying the whole activity was the earnest endeavor by a group of dangerous individuals to subvert the laws of the United States...
Leonard Lehrman, not easily deflected in any endeavor or by any obstacle, mastered German in a summer in order to translate Days of the Commune, the only major play in the Brechtian canon unknown to English-speaking audiences. The Germans, fastidious in matters literary, rank this particular play as one of Brecht's three or four best. Brecht himself they mention in the same breath with Shakespeare and Goethe. One word about Lehrman: music comes just as easily as instant linguistic virtuosity to this Dunster House dynamo. Having studied piano seven years under Elie Siegmeister, Lehrman has for the past...
...CRIMSON isn't all viewing. At the founder's meeting in 1873, one of the Crimson bylaws read, "... and ye shall strive, with each and every extension of your muscular endeavor, to rejoice in accomplishing 100 undefeated seasons of cricket." The CRIMSON still needs three more perfect softball records to let the original editors' souls rest in peace...