Word: formative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the problem lies in the changed press conference format. In Franklin Roosevelt's day, the press conference, held in the President's own office, amounted to an informal chat with a handful of regular White House reporters. Harry Truman held his conferences in an Old State Department conference room; yet they remained generally breezy affairs...
...Kennedy's only chance for carrying through any of his ambitious programs is persuasion. If he cannot or will not scare Americans into believing that the recession is a crisis, he can at least explain to them why some action is needed--which is more than the present TV format permits...
...Sure Cure. There are plenty of critics of modern basketball and its pellmell, high-scoring format. Says Fordham's Coach Johnny Bach disgustedly: "I look for an N.B.A. team, possibly the Celtics, to score over 200 points some time this season." Since shooting is forced by the clock and favored by the rules on fouls, the N.B.A. players are happily turning into "gunners"-once a term of contempt for the men who did nothing but shoot. "The kids are making shots we wouldn't even dare take," says Detroit's Coach McGuire, a crack playmaker during...
...sepulchral tones and adopted his left-of-center emotions; the so-called "Murrow Boys" included Eric Sevareid, Charles Collingwood and Larry Le Sueur. The Murrow style has long since come to seem stale, and the proof lies in the widespread acceptance of the far more informal Huntley-Brinkley format. But CBS's problems go even farther back. When Sig Mickelson joined CBS in 1949, he began trying to build his own news organization, and a Murrow-Mickelson rift developed that was never repaired. In 1958, Murrow's program, See It Now, was dropped; Murrow himself, far off form...
...present placement test is not very accurate or well conceived," charged Edward J. Geory, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literature. Placement tests are written by University instructors and resemble College Board tests in general format...