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...line becomes even fuzzier when Bok's theory addresses the question of gifts intended to attract "favorable publicity to improve a donor's image." On the one hand, Bok proudly points out he once turned down a gift from the Papadopoulos regime which seemed designed to gain the goodwill of Greek-Americans. On the other hand, Steiner admitted that Harvard had accepted the Atlantic Richfield Company's offer to build a public affairs forum, even though "I'm sure ARCO hoped (the naming of the Forum) could have some favorable impact on its negative public image." True, ARCO has been...
Despite the new title, Loeb does not consider himself merely a business journalist. "Our section isn't only about dollars and cents," he says. "It's about ideas, individuals, trends. The line between economics and other areas of American life has become much fuzzier. Is affirmative action, for example, a political, social or economic issue? The answer, of course, is that it is all three, and more. Covering these kinds of stories gives us a very eclectic section each week...
...American media also faced new challenges in the Indochina war: the issues were even fuzzier than the battle lines, because the official American position--which war correspondents had always accepted in the past--was built on a series of obviously false assumptions...
...arts, the distinction between the conceptualized and the realized, between the thought and the thing, has been getting fuzzier for some time. Poems about writing poetry are now cliche--indeed since Yeats's "circus animals," his faithful images deserted him, verse has turned in on itself to the point where most poems seem to be written about being unable to compose poetry. Prose, too, introspects to analysis or suggestion modern novelists seem lost in a funhouse of potential trips that stay potential, journalists discuss other journalists' intents in the New Yorker and the 20 most interesting minutes of the Carter...
Brown gave the impression of being even more of an anti-Establishment candidate than Carter and was fuzzier on the issues. Because of endorsements from Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Henry Ford II and officers of the United Auto Workers, Carter was converted from outsider to insider. As a Detroit citizen explained, "I voted for Udall because I was trying to vote out anybody who is in." In San Clemente, even Richard Nixon got into the anti-Carter act. When Carter's name was mentioned, the former President reacted by throwing his head back and hamming it up with...