Word: lippman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are a number of Harvard and Radcliffe graduates who failed to join the staff of Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily, but, despite the poverty of their background, went on to win Pulitzers. Walter Lippman '10, the dean of American journalism who won a special Pulitzer Prize Citation in 1958 "for the wisdom, perception, and high sense of responsibility with which he has commented for many years on national and international affairs," was cut from The Crimson when he couldn't keep up with the rigors of the competition. James Agee '32, who took the Pulitzer for Fiction...
...Vesuvian temper is legendary. One of his biographers, Theo Lippman Jr., reports that "he gave us ten interviews for the book [Muskie], and in the last one, we brought up the subject of his temper. He lost his temper." The Republican National Committee, as part of its research on Muskie, has an affidavit from a Maine telephone operator swearing that during a Muskie vacation a few years ago, a telephone repairman had to go up to the Senator's cottage three times to fix a phone that had been ripped off the wall...
...horse's ass."); the ambassador's daughter who organizes the students at Nonomura and goes to Radcliffe has a lisp and is straight out of The Impossible Years. And it is rumored that Art Buchwald doesn't really exist-that he is the unfulfilled dream of Walter Lippman, or better yet, Walter Lippman, disguised as a humorist...