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...Walter Isaacson. Reported by David Beckwith and Neil MacNeil/ Washington
...lost. Even with a full beard and tousled head of auburn hair. Domingo cannot disguise the fact that he is at least 15 years too old for the callow hero, but he makes Alfredo into an unusually impetuous, even violent personality. As Alfredo's father, veteran Baritone Cornell MacNeil is the picture of implacable bourgeois respectability...
...decided that he could no longer do two jobs properly, but will continue to report Washington for the Monitor, as he has for 62 years. Strout is pleased but a little unnerved by the adulation of his colleagues and the attention he has been getting. The phone rings: the MacNeil-Lehrer Report wants him on the air. "I'm saying the same corny stuff to everyone," he tells them. "I'm warning you I'm running dry. Don't ask me to say anything profound...
...high tea. As the Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse wrote in his essay Repressive Tolerance, under the free-speech practices of a liberal regime, "the stupid opinion is treated with the same respect as the intelligent one, the misinformed may talk as long as the informed." History is not the MacNeil-Lehrer Report either. Should one grit one's teeth and recite the First Amendment when, say, American Nazis decide to march in a Chicago suburb (Skokie) inhabited by many Jews who survived the Holocaust? Suppose that a man (William Shockley) wishes to tour American lecture halls suggesting that blacks...
...that he also has the flexibility to work with the institution when it asserts more independence. Otherwise, the pendulum will swing from a Congress that once had blind faith in Reagan's policies to one that is blindly determined to stop them. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington