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Some critics have argued that television has a duty, instead, to focus relentlessly on the podium, or else be guilty of misrepresenting the event. Television properly replies that speeches are only one facet of a convention, and refuses to cover the ceremonies with the hushed reverence of the BBC covering a coronation. Other critics contend that this great political rite should not reach the public filtered through rival network superstars. But men like the lone Cronkite, or Chancellor/Brinkley (who make a better matched pair than did the earlier Huntley/Brinkley), show a welcome lack of showboating. When one NBC reporter...
...rulers. Something in human nature cannot resist being told that the richest, most powerful and most beautiful are also the most miserable. The plain fact that this is often not true has never weakened the formula's appeal, and Tryon plays it for whatever it is worth. No facet of his characters' exquisite unhappiness remains unbuffed. "There are better ways to amuse oneself than by being a movie star," Fedora pouts. "Movie star," Willie Marsh snarls. "It's a crock...
...Facet of the universal...
Building upon the University's extensive Judaica collection, the drive's eventual goal is to provide six endowed professorship and scholar programs for the Jewish Studies Center. The six professorships will be in a particular facet of Jewish scholarship and will be worked into existing departments including History, Philosophy, Religion...
...University's fund raising style is designed to tap more financial resources than in the past, by running several separate drives at once. Each one gears its approach to a constituency with a special concern in the development of one facet of the University. Not only is Harvard going overseas to reach untapped and valuable foreign fund resources, but the University has also created programs that will catch the eye of various American ethnic groups, and still others that appeal to the self interest of American and foreign corporations...