Word: kempton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning to render some reflections on a petty instance of civic corruption for the Columbia Broadcasting System, in a great cavern where nine of my fellow unemployed sat, each behind an office desk.'' Lacquered up with makeup that "would seem a little too much to Sadie Thompson," Kempton found the studio trying to put him at ease with a TelePrompTer, but "only private detectives conduct private conversations while looking fixedly at the person addressed and private detectives do not set their eyes on the subject's forehead." So he sat, "an actor who was not an actor...
Minimum Pay. "To me," said former New York Post Columnist Murray Kempton writing in the British weekly Spectator, "the saddest spectacle of the newspaper strike has been the sight of so many of my old friends on television, head up, eyes front, body sagging, attempting spontaneity in the pronouncement of words they composed two days ago and have read over seven times since." One of Columnist Kempton's old friends was Kempton himself, and he did not like either the sight or the experience...
...Post debut, Mrs. Javits exhibited an interest in gastronomy and fashion that the paper's readers, more accustomed to the naked dialectics of such columnists as Murray Kempton, James Wechsler and Max Lerner. may take some time getting used to. "For hors d'oeuvres," wrote Mrs. Javits, describing the table she laid for some visitors, "I served eggplant caviar on tiny rounds of toasted bread. Lunch began with quiche Lorraine, with special homemade puff-dough cheese sticks, followed by a main course of cold jellied boeuf . . . You can understand why neither the Senator nor I could eat dinner...
Cussed Commuter. These confections are only lightly dusted with news-a fair share of it borrowed. "The afternoon papers," says Post Columnist Murray Kempton, "are only poor morning papers delivered in the afternoon. Every afternoon paper in New York is written out of the Times and the News-though they do pick up slightly as the day goes on." Now and then, one of the evening dailies bestirs itself to launch a crusade, e.g., the World-Telegram's recent series on slum landlords and university-student cheating. But such enterprise is rare. More characteristic is the Post...
...Review, have long top priority to recruiting stu. Yet in the past, rallies for purpose have been less than phant. They usually attracted d 500 people -- mostly grim old ladies. The one last Friday, however, was an unqualified success which reduced even so sentimental a liberal as columnist Murray Kempton (New York Post) to savage comments about "children" who don't respect their (liberal) elders, and to bitter disillusionment about the merits of John Dewey's educational reforms. Four thousand attended the rally, and -- according to perhaps exaggerated official estimates -- from three to six thousand more had to be turned...