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DIED. MURRAY KEMPTON, 79, maverick, moralistic columnist whose baroque language could never hide an unwavering sympathy for the oppressed and an abiding sense of fair play; in New York City. A liberal labor reporter for the New York Post in 1942, Kempton continued his sometimes quixotic fight for underdogs on the left and right--he even defended the fallen Richard Nixon when the former President was rejected by a New York co-op board. His many awards included a 1985 Pulitzer for his Newsday commentary...
...creating a vacuum into which she brings some fresh air. She lacks Alicia Silverstone's knowing perkiness; Tyler carries the hint of emotional exhaustion in her wide eyes, as if she had just wiped away tears or sleep. Yet she has the impact on these films that Murray Kempton said John Lindsay had on the 1965 New York City mayoral campaign: "He is fresh and everyone else is tired...
...Murray Kempton said the task of editorial writers is to come down out of the hills after the battle is over to shoot the wounded. Is it the job of jackboot reporters in this country to conduct house-to-house searches, ransacking private lives for every disreputable little secret, driving quarry to such humiliation that their only refuge is self-destruction? Shame on my profession! To hell with its venal careerism, its hypocrisy, its prurience, its pietistic ruthlessness...
...Engel, and Michael J. Puri from Lowell; Jill A. Corcoran, Anne O. Decker, and Michael I. Schwartz from Mather; Emerson H. Liu, Sanjay Shetty, and Canh P. Vu from Pforzheimer; Barak Ben Gal, Manjul Bhargava, Kiran S. Kedlaya, Lenhard Lee Ng, Thinh Huy Nguyen, Adib R. Pasha, Adam Kempton Webb, Timothy P. Yu, and Noah T. Zinkin from Quincy; Steven W. Hetts, Brian D. Koh, David B. Lat, and Elizabeth J. Riemer from Winthrop...
Books: Courtly dissections by Murray Kempton...