Word: kempton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those who haven't read the New Republic, the anniversary edition offers only a mediocre introduction. Far better to start with this week's regular issue, which contains, among other things, a fine TRB, an excellent piece by Murray Kempton, and several perceptive reviews...
...pages, such conservative spokesmen as Russell (Conservative Mind) Kirk, Cornell University's Clinton Rossiter (Conservatism in America) and James Jackson Kilpatrick Jr., editor of the Richmond News Leader, spelled out the philosophy of their politics. Sometimes even outsiders were permitted aboard, among them Liberal Columnist Murray Kempton and Steve Allen, whose occupation as a TV comedian allows time for the espousal of liberal causes...
Second, he said that Johnson appreciates Shriver's background in business, a background which would season him for the tough political maneuvering in which Johnson revels. As Murray Kempton recently put it in The New Republic, Shriver was the only man Joseph Kennedy trused to collect his rents at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago...
...affair was organized by a pair of ideologues who chew one another up in print but are friends anyway-Murray Kempton, onetime New York Post columnist who now ventilates his views in the left-wing New Republic, and William F. Buckley Jr.. editor of the right-wing National Review. After King Features Syndicate sacked Pegler last summer for calling Boss William Randolph Hearst Jr. a "spoiled brat," the two set up the dinner and invited some of the irascible columnist's friends and former colleagues "to tell Peg that we like...
When Harrington's real compassion is marred by a style that resembles bad Murray Kempton, he sounds like a self-conscious tourist compiling a diary: today I worked in the Bowery; today I walked through Harlem; today my friends introduced me to some migrant workers. But despite its stylistic lapses, The Other America is written by a man of conscience, feeling, and responsibility. Harrington is trying to come to grips with a problem that many refuse to recognize in any but cold, statistical terms. Ultimately, his personal tone is legitimate and effective...