Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scholars hope their discussion will have a political impact, but when asked if he thought this would happen, Hoffmann said...
MOST PEOPLE discover purely by accident that Harvard has a rugby team. Perhaps they mean to go the Saturday morning soccer game, and take the wrong turn at the Stadium. Maybe they're looking for the Palmer Dixon tennis courts, and happen upon a scrimmage a few yards away. In any case, only a small knot of students know that a Harvard rugby team exists...
THESE THINGS happen to a reporter--the rage to participate in the events he is writing about and in the writing itself is sometimes hard to overcome. And when it is overcome, the aftertaste often is shame...
Objectivity has always been a strange idea. It demands the separation of the man from the event, even though the man is writing about the event from his own head with his own hands. Objectivity means that the reporter writes an event "the way it happened" not the way the reporter saw and smelled and felt it happen. But because the reporter is one man writing, not a machine spewing data, "the way it happened" not the way the reporter perceived it happening must be the same thing...
...baby, the big time. He'll eat those questions up. They're too pat.... But I have to ask those questions: I'm applying for a job, not doing an interview. I'm just a normal college graduate wanting into the manistream.... Well, nothing's going to happen and you're not going to get any good copy. He's not going to get himself into any trouble; he's adroit, like a politician...