Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophomore year. In one of his more ignominious moments, Reed told his Jewish roommate, Carl Binger, that they could not live together, because it would hamper Reed's chances of gaining membership in the Hasty Pudding Institute. Reed preferred football games and social functions to participation in Walter Lippmann's newly formed Socialist Club...
...Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as resolve impasses over tax and energy proposals. Although the dispute could arise again in 1977, the precedent toward easier cloture has now been set. Sentiment seems to be running against the defenders of the filibuster, including the late Walter Lippmann who once praised it as "a precious usage, invaluable to the preservation of freedom." On the ascendancy is the judgment expressed by Woodrow Wilson, who as President argued that the filibuster allowed "a little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own," to make the Senate "the only legislative body...
...question remains: Is checkbook journalism justifiable? CBS Public Affairs Vice President Robert Chandler defends payment for material that is a "memoir" rather than "hard news." Since the '50s, he points out, CBS has paid former Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson, Authors Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Walter Lippmann and convicted Watergate Conspirator G. Gordon Liddy to "reminisce" about the past. Argues Chandler, CBS is "paying for memoirs that are the electronic equivalent of a long magazine piece-or a marathon Play boy interview...
According to Robert O. Anthony, an advisor to the Lippmann collection at Yale, Lippmann responded to Harvard's inquiries about the 1946 gift by saying "You never asked me for them and Yale did. It would be a great presumption for me to assume you wanted them...
Sources have suggested that Lippmann's decision to donate his papers to Yale may have been caused by a rift in Lippmann-Harvard relations at the time of the first gift...