Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that there is a momentary lull in the outpouring of Watergate books, another legacy of the Nixon era needs closer scrutiny. This is the notion, propagated by Richard Nixon, that Government and the press have an adversary relationship. What Nixon meant by the phrase he made perfectly clear in a letter to Spiro Agnew during the 1968 campaign: "When news is concerned, nobody in the press is a friend-they are all enemies." But why the press should have seized upon the adversary description and proudly flaunted it ever since is harder to understand...
...attitude signaled the welcome end of a too-cozy courtship of the press in the Kennedy-Johnson era, when, for example, Ben Bradlee -Nixon's ferocious adversary all through Watergate-had been willing to quash a story because his friend Jack Kennedy urged him to. But the adversary phrase has a lot to do with certain self-satisfied post-Watergate attitudes in the press, including the arrogant defense of sleazy ways of getting stories...
Freelance.* The phrase suggests freedom, adventure and the protagonist of a thousand B movies, Berlin-bound on the night train with a dream and an Olivetti. The dream, however, has turned sour. For most freelancers, magazine writing today has become the slum of journalism-overcrowded, underpaid, littered with rejection slips-and the denizens are growing restless. "It's a synonym for unemployed bum," grumbles John Jerome, who left the editorship of Skiing a decade ago to write for himself and has spent half that time in debt. Warren G. Bovée, acting dean of the Marquette University journalism...
That is neither a phrase from a graduate Vis Stud thesis, nor a description of your roommate's girlfriend. Rather, those qualities of the Harvard Square kiosk earned it a place on the National Register of Historical Places this week...
Schiefelbein and many of the professors she quotes say the Faculty must give education a "rationale," "meaning," "coherence." This is fine and good, but unfortunately no one has reduced the meaning of education or the role education plays in a hierarchical society to a pat, formulaic phrase. In fact, it seems no one has realized that this very question, and other questions in the same vein, are the root of an intense ideological battle being waged throughout the world. It seems reasonable to raise the question: Are Harvard professors--safe and secure with plenty of status and money--so removed...