Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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H.R.L. was no press lord in the tradition of Britain's Lord Beaverbrook or America's William Randolph Hearst. Power was not his passion-what burned in him was the search for truth and the desire to communicate it. And the way he went about it was to hire the best men he could and engage them in what amounted to a continuous dialogue. The degree of autonomy he gave his editors and the interplay of ideas he encouraged was a constant source of amazement to any outsider who encountered it. The late Aga Khan once offered Luce...
...bully -- and it is difficult for him to achieve the ponderous viciousness he needs. As it is, he sounds like one of those characters who stuff tin cans in their boots and go kill people. Baptistin (Joshua Rubins), his uncle, is up to his vocation: groaning in a rheumatic passion on a revolving bed which swings into view in case of a raid...
...latest sample of the Beatles' astonishing inventiveness is their new single, Strawberry Fields Forever, the flip side of which is Penny Lane; it is now No. 1 in England. Written by John Lennon and McCartney-who has lately developed a passion for Electronic Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen-Strawberries is full of dissonances and eerie space-age sounds, achieved in part by playing tapes backward and at various speeds. This is nothing new to electronic composers, but employing such methods in a pop song is electrifying. At present, the Beatles are giving up tours and personal appearances, plan instead to devote...
Died. Roy Roberts, 79, grand old man of plainspoken journalism, who in 56 years held every job on the Kansas City Star from reporter to president, a rumpled, cigar-chomping extrovert who made his paper "the hair shirt of the community," mixing enthusiastic local coverage with a passion for national politics, promoted Alf Landon in 1936, backed Dewey, Willkie, Ike and Nixon, but supported Lyndon Johnson in 1964, putting the Star on the side of a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 80 years, then retired because of poor health and predicted, "I'll have the biggest...
Where Is Saigon? For all the difference between these types, there are some constants: the Vietnamese seem to love their villages with an extraordinary passion. Again and again, they speak of the time when the trouble will end and they can go back to the elysium of such hamlets as Gia Hoi or Hoai Chau. So narrow and parochial is their vision that most do not know the name of their province chief or the mayor of the adjoining city. At their hesitant best, the peasants can identify only Ho Chi Minn and the late Ngo Dinh Diem. Few know...