Word: personation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open to any student who wants to speak with me. I find it astonishing and saddening that the students with complaints did not raise their voices in one of these forums, and instead chose to make public charges I consider slanderous. I have full confidence that any fair-minded person who heard me out on any of these issues would not find me "racially insensitive." The real source of the charges, I am convinced, is that I failed to hew to a line that the disgruntled students took to be Gospel...
Even Rather's fans frequently find him mystifying -- never more so than last September, when he became broadcasting's most famous missing person. Miffed that CBS coverage of a U.S. Open tennis match was cutting into his evening newscast, Rather abruptly walked off the set just before the network switched to the news, inadvertently forcing the CBS nationwide signal to go black for six minutes. The incident renewed dark suspicions that Rather is too high- strung and emotionally unstable to be running a network newscast. Asked the London Times: "Is Dan Rather, bishop of the nation's news business, losing...
Rather has never seemed completely comfortable in the anchor chair. A courtly and painstakingly polite man in person, he seems stiff and tense on camera. Even his attempts at spontaneity and good humor look programmed. One week he tried ending his broadcast with the sign-off "Courage"; widespread derision forced him to drop it after three nights. Walter Cronkite, Rather's predecessor, was calm and reassuring, an avuncular figure to the nation. Rather seems tightly coiled and uneasy, an eccentric cousin capable of almost anything...
Buoyed by the midweek backlash in Rather's favor, CBS executives stood by their man. "There is no question that what Dan portrayed on the air was not the sort of gracious Southern gentleman that he is in person," said News President Howard Stringer. "What we got was a journalist in pursuit of a story." CBS Chairman Lawrence Tisch, who was traveling in the Far East on business when the episode occurred, was briefed on it by telephone and, according to Stringer, was "very supportive." CBS staffers, though shaken by the initial barrage of criticism, were also upbeat by week...
...took his paperweights to a crafts show in Atlantic City. There he met Gallery Owner Reese Palley. "The minute I saw his work," says Palley, "I knew that this was the product of a person with an innate understanding of nature." Palley urged Stankard to give up his job and concentrate on fashioning flowers. He would pay him $250 a week to start; in return he would have first refusal on Stankard's work. "What should I do?" Stankard asked his wife Pat. Her reply: Wait for two weeks after the birth of their fourth child. Then...