Word: pr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only in Cambridge will you be able to vote for every candidate in the race because Cambridge is the only U.S. city to retain a system of voting, known as proportional representation (PR...
Cambridge has so far resisted the temptation to convert to straight majority voting because, advocates insist, the PR system consistently ensures minority representation on the city council and school committee and at the same time prevents domination by any one political faction...
What does he see around him--the greatest economic revolution since the New Deal? A new posture of international confidence? A reemergence of American morality? Naah. He sees bureaucrats running seminars on wasteful office management, secretaries seducing bosses for Elizabeth Ray-style autobiographies, and PR moguls trying to sell oppressive Latin American regimes to hick Congressmen. As long as the elite gather in dark Connecticut Ave. bistros to eat lousy steaks and exchange gossip, Buchwald will be in business, for that is his Washington...
Felicity Beringer, now a national affairs reporter for The Washington Post, was one aspiring journalist who could not be broken to the PR regime, says Lord. Beringer "would go up to the fundraisers, and they would call me, and say, 'Deane, who is your newest employee? She makes us feel as if we are hiding something.'" Beringer agrees that she sometimes resented her role as a writer on a leash, pointing out that everything written for the Gazette must be cleared with University sources for publication...
...Lampoon parody of her paper: "page after page, a boring list of names--'The Gazette Announces...'it was excellent." Yet she expresses a good deal of pride in the publication as well: "We view ourselves as a very proper, mellifluous Bostonian: sensationalism is not our thing." The perfect University PR people are "writers who love Harvard, who love the written word, and love to do features," she says. Under Lord's direction, the Gazette has spruced up its appearance in recent years and now includes well-received photo features on the school and Cambridge, as well as pieces on interesting...