Word: lisagor
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...sniping began almost before Salinger sat down. ''The presidential news conference today," said Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News, "is disorderly, disorganized, and hard on the lower back. With the television monsters all around, the reporters have become little more than props. One of our colleagues has compared the performance to making love in Carnegie Hall...
When Accuser Lisagor paused for breath, Max Freedman, capital correspondent for England's Manchester Guardian, tired from another flank. The conference format, said Freedman suavely, is rich in ''entrenched blunders," but thanks to Kennedy's rhetorical skill, "the structure of the English sentence is no longer left as a dishonored casualty." Freedman generously split the blame for the conference format's failure between the reportorial inquisitors-"the only class appointed without an examination to conduct cross-examination"-and President Kennedy, who is compelled to endure "the ultimate cruelty of thinking aloud under pressure...