Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walters has elevated the interview to a high art. "She has a relaxed, easy manner," reports NBC News Vice President Don Meaney, who used to be in charge of Today. "She doesn't grill her subjects, therefore she elicits more information and keeps the audience on her side." Adds Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz, who has been interviewed by her several times and is a personal friend: "She always asks the questions most Americans want to know, not just the questions on the minds of the professionals. And she doesn't allow you to get away with a flat...
...weren't for Rick Stafford's quiet grin and easy manner of breaking into conversation with everyone he takes pictures of, for and with, nobody would notice him. It's his job to be at every Harvard event but not to be part of it--he must be off to the side while people have their great moments in life, as he must record their glory for them. His is a lonely job, so he always chats with those around him. He gets to know everyone from professors to administrators to football players in his travels. They all remember...
...Gone to Look for America," attempts to find out what activists are doing today. Burlingham's thesis is stated between the lines: "I had heard from other friends that changes were taking place in America." He then goes on to document some of these changes in a somewhat thorough manner. He shows how Arkansas Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), for instance, is working on a community basis to get utility rates lowered. But Burlingham's emphasis is strange. "Politics as if people mattered" turns out to be how picking the utility rates issue was "fortuitous for the organization [ACORN...
...Socialist-Communist coalition--with the Communists as junior partners, reflecting their fourth-place electoral finish with about 15 per cent--is needed to maintain working-class confidence in the Portuguese revolution. Despite the Socialists' insistence that they rule alone, or go into opposition, it is the only true manner in which the promises of April 25, 1974 can be redeemed...
...This is the apparent inability of The Crimson to confine its editorial views to the editorial pages. Consistently, articles seem slanted in both style and content. Rather than responsibly presenting the news as disinterestedly as possible, stories seem to be selected for editorial impact, and then written in a manner that is decidedly biased...