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Ibn-Khaldun, and later, like-minded prophets, did not calculate that the cycles could be broken, that history could simply veer off in another direction. As Journalist-Critic A.J. Liebling noted, Ibn-Khaldun's determinism was refuted by "the vigor of Renaissance thought, the technological advances and the discovery of...
There were conflicting pressures. Restless activists, reviving the charges of the old George Seldes-A.J. Liebling school, insisted that the press was far too cozy with the nation's political, industrial and cultural leadership?even as major news organizations were accused of being too sympathetic to radicals.
Ali is shrewdly pyrotechnical, as usual, Frazier stolid but with a certain quiet wit. Asked just before the match how the $2.5 million purse makes him feel, he replies with ironic deliberation that "it gives me the inspiration to do a little more." The Fighters captures the skill and challenge...
...crowded hall on Manhattan's West Side, weighed not profit and loss but the less tangible standards of their craft. The tumultuous two-day A.J. Liebling Counter-Convention* was timed to coincide with the publishers' gathering, and the mood of confusion and malaise generated by the Lieblingers produced the desired contrast. The nonstop critique underscored journalism's variety and energy-plus a widespread disenchantment with conventional practices. It was, in a way, journalism's Woodstock...
At the end, Master Muckraker I.F. Stone, 64, stood up to accept th A.J. Liebling Award from the editors of [MORE] for a long and lonely career of crusading. Stone assured his audience that "the Establishment is so full of crap, that it really deserves to be treated disrespectfully." But...