Word: expert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the conditions under which the news will be obtained. President Johnson was able to force whole herds of reporters to follow him around the White House grounds in the hot sun on the chance that he might drop something worth printing. And a brilliant young expert on Soviet affairs in the Intelligence and Research section of the State Department can extract a promise that even the pseudonym "analyst" will not be used to describe him as the source of the valuable information he provides. Both the President and the expert can command their prices...
...military colonels themselves, they continue to exhibit fascist-like authoritarianism, puritanism, extrfeme nationalism, and anti-intellectualism. Their obsession with mini-skirts, beards, independent prelates, actresses, and song-writers indicates an inability to face serious economic and administrative problems Their announcement to the effect that an expert committee will draw up a constitution provides no assurances that anything like a democratic government will be restored; their own actions provide even less assurance. It is the responsibility of the U.S., as the perennial Greek army builder, to quit buttressing the colonels and withhold aid until the present regime agrees to constitutional guarantees...
...Clifton White. White, according to reporter Fredirck S. Groshen's Old Friends, has stated that he has been "the official or unofficial campaign manager for Young Republican national chairman from 1949 through 1957." White is a former government professor at Cornell and currently a lawyer and public relations expert in New York. His philosophy is to control the national party by the only means possible--by nominating a candidate for President...
...Globe, then changed his mind. Akerson, then the Herald-Traveler's assistant publisher, joined forces with Choate and newspaper and magazine distributor Harry Garfinkle, largest Herald-Traveler stockholder, to head off the sale. Moving up to the publisher's office, Akerson hired a science and medicine expert, expanded regional coverage, removed ads from the front page and hired new, younger reporters. He reversed the Traveler's circulation decline, but he never managed to eliminate a pollyanna tone that blunted the paper's point and pertinence. Says Boston University Journalism Professor Robert Baram...
...prospectus says that the Summer Players "feel that with Aristophanes, to be irreverent is to be faithful." This production is not faithful to Aristophanes' irreverence. For Aristophanes, while he was an expert practitioner of the calculated gross-out, also dared to scream insults in the face of public opinion. And that, as he says himself in this play, is what placed him head and shoulders over his fellow comedy-writers...