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There are ambitious mavericks in every field (Clay Felker of New York in magazines, Rupert Murdoch in newspapers) who know the expected limits of respectability in their craft, but choose to succeed by excess. Arledge is such a man. His conversation is full of proper responses ("A commentary mustn't fight the film," "The single biggest problem of television is that everyone talks so much," "The first law of football is that when the teams line up, you go to the play-by-play man"); yet it is he who stuffed the Monday night booth with three garrulous commentators...
Rippon works a three-day shift of twelve-hour days. She does not write her own copy, though she suggests changes to improve style and delivery. "The hardest part of the job is the mental discipline," she says. "You mustn't look as if you're concentrating, but the biggest pitfall is to lose concentration...
...civil service, the police and the treasury. (The school system is administered separately by an elected school committee.) The council can only "request" the city manager to take action, not order him to do so, giving him a lot of leeway in administering the city. But the manager mustn't permanently alienate a majority of the city council: it does have the power to remove him from office, a fate city managers usually face only when an election changes the political alignments of the council...
...almost all Singer's stories, they're stories of Polish Jews or their children in the United States, told in slightly humorous, simple sentences that probably lose something for not being read aloud--the fear that what happens to people is not meant to make sense reappears. "Nu, one mustn't know everything," says a bearded woman in one of the book's weaker stories, in which Singer gives so little hint what his story means or might mean that it's just tantalizing, it leads to no hint of resolution. "We walked out on Broadway and the heat...
...needed to help us understand how college can be different, and what's right and wrong about Harvard, and what it could be at best. Ultimately everyone benefits from a better understanding of this college and of our relations to it--Harvard attitudes can be very provincial, you mustn't forget...