Word: krock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arthur Krock, LL.D., retired New York Times columnist. A scholarly chronicler of scheming statesmen and listless legislators, a dignified recorder of democratic dreams...
...paper, the Times, Krock says that "its emphasis on the news has changed. It has become a very liberal paper, in the modern concept of liberalism. I'll not look in it for my kind of stuff any more." What he will be missing in the Times, Krock explains, is his own brand of Wilsonian liberal ism. "That has now become conservative, and to some, almost reactionary...
More than the definition of liberal ism, as Krock sees it, has changed in the U.S. President Johnson, in particular, has changed. "I didn't see any of the Great Society compulsory stuff in his days as a young Congressman." Today, says Krock, Johnson is a "sly and devious man." From the reporter's point of view, Harry Truman was the great President-"absolutely candid, not a bone of secrecy in his body and scarcely one of reticence...
...tart, witty man in his speech, Krock rarely let such acerbity get into his columns. His criticism was almost always based on stern but high principles. He was also an inveterate writer of incisive letters to the editor. In one answer to a two-column attack by Harold Ickes, he skewered his opponent as a man "who has painted a word portrait of me in his own image. This tendency is familiar to psychiatrists...
Careless Reporting. For all his complaints, Krock has no intention of retiring from his longtime job of watching the world around him with a critical eye. He turned down all offers to organize farewell parties; he will keep his office in the Times bureau. And there he plans to continue with his two-finger typing. What he will produce, he says, is uncertain. For one thing, he has not made up his mind whether it is proper for him to write his memoirs. Besides, "I'm lazy as hell and have been all my life. I'm mentally...