Word: postscript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dereliction of its duty to the American people-although not in the sense meant by Agnew. Among its conclusions: broadcasting is far behind print in investigative reporting, "documentary programming hit a new low" and reporting of the 1968 election campaign did not adequately inform the electorate. In a personal postscript. Sir William Haley kissed off much of U.S. news coverage as "meretricious, superficial and spotty." The survey hammered at what it called "the real cause of the crisis in broadcasting": broadcasters' obsession with private profit rather than public service. "A theologian would call it greed," the jury dryly observed...
...postscript to a study published two years ago, a Harvard sociologist says that from "5 to 20 per cent of the [American] black population (from 1 to 4 million people) hold attitudes indicating a depth of estrangement and bitterness unique in American history...
...consultants, after examining the types of cases coming before the Administrative Board, frequently involving intimate personal problems, expressed some disinclination to participate in inquiries into and judgments on them. We also face issues of overlapping jurisdiction. As the working paper of the Committee of Fifteen referred to in our postscript on disciplinary procedures makes clear, reforms in the procedures and composition of the Administrative Board and the Radcliffe Judicial Council are currently under study and remain to be completed; we believe it desirable to await the recommendations resulting from these studies. We realize, however, that the parietal questions, academic rules...
LYNDON JOHNSON has written a nifty little book to serve as a postscript to his Administration. It is called The Choices We Face, and it tells us all about them...
Perhaps we are not expected to feel satisfied taking an exam, but a little such satisfaction would make examinations much more an integral part of the learning process at Harvard, instead of a ritualistic postscript...