Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrote Walter Lippmann a few days after Radio City Music Hall opened its doors in 1932, "a pedestal built to sustain a peanut." Describing the entire Rockefeller Center complex in which the Music Hall sat, Lewis Mumford called it "the sorriest failure of imagination and intelligence in modern American architecture." And they were among the kinder critics...
...addition to studying in their field of interest, fellows participate in two weekly discussions at Lippmann House. One discussion focuses on journalism-related topics like ethics and the economy of the press, while the other is more general, including past speakers like DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr.and country singer Mary Chapin Carpenter...
Eugenics never recovered from the news of what had been carried out under its banner in Hitler's Germany. In truth, a number of people--including G.K. Chesterton, H.L. Mencken, Walter Lippmann and Clarence Darrow--had ridiculed and debunked eugenic theories well before the horrors of the Holocaust occurred and became widely known...
Burnett did not originate this conceit. In his classic 1922 study Public Opinion, journalist Walter Lippmann maintained that pictures are "the surest way of conveying an idea. A leader or an interest that can make itself master of current symbols is master of the current situation...
...noble lineage. It is the offspring of Phil Donahue, who, true to his format, once wore a dress to enliven the proceedings. The President hasn't gone that far--not quite. But who can forget his town meeting on MTV in 1993? "Boxers or briefs?" asked a budding Walter Lippmann in the studio audience. The President could have turned the question aside. "Madam," he might have said, "that is a private matter between me and my interns." Or better: "Young lady, I am the President of the United States, and you should be ashamed of yourself." But of course...