Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most violent opposition to most of these suggestions came from Council Secretary Merom Brachman '58, who claimed that by voting the executive committee so much power, members were "sealing their own doom." He claimed the measures would "cut out free discussion," an opinion seconded by John Maher '60, who emotionally called them "the death of democracy...
Indeed, the University holds an equally high opinion of Ready. As Matthew J. Toohy, chief of the University police, says, "Anytime I've ever called on Chief Ready for anything he was always ready to cooperate and cooperate 100 per cent. He's done an outstanding...
...Sour Opinion. Most observers blame the new Tory electoral setbacks on inflation and the unpopular Rent Law. Hailsham, taking office last week, characteristically issued a more sweeping pronouncement: "I believe that public opinion in Britain has never been so sour; the people have lost confidence in democratic life." Old-regimental tie (the Rifle Brigade) awry, he tossed in a few reassurances that he would be "a member of the team" and "a listening post...
...work, budgets, and "most of all, I didn't like firing people." Before he went back to broadcasting with a $150,000-a-year sponsored news show, he took a hand in writing what is still the network's policy forbidding its news analysts to inject editorial opinion into their "objective" interpretation. After Bill Paley added him to the CBS board of directors in 1949-a post he held until 1955-Murrow eyed TV even more distrustfully as a platform for a newsman's personal opinion. He asked in a memo: "Is it not possible that...
Murrow admits to prejudices shaped by his background; he tends to favor labor, farmers, Britain, underdogs (and, in the opinion of some Republicans, Democrats). He says he owes allegiance to no party. He speaks often of the rule of law and the right of dissent. But the enormous impact of his few overtly controversial broadcasts during the McCarthy era has given him a reputation for the kind of partisanship that he usually succeeds in keeping under control...