Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard will be looking to overall team depth and the scoring punch of the sophomore line of DeMichele-Cavanagh-Owen. Penn, still looking for its first Ivy win, has a young team which has done better in outside competition, beating St. Nick's and winning a Pennsylvania hockey tournament...
...first computers had barely been put to work by college administrators a few years ago when students began complaining that they were being treated like so many IBM punch cards. Now prospective undergraduates are eagerly paying $15 to get just that sort of attention. By having information about themselves put on punch cards, they are getting valuable help in choosing the right college. In a fast-growing computerized program called SELECT, a computer digests the answers to a four-part 283-item questionnaire in a matter of seconds and compares the answers with its store of information about colleges...
...message, this is just medium. But seeing all adult confabulation as a sort of predictable Punch-and-Judy show is now the universal indulgence of the unindulgent young...
Throughout the narrative, Talese analyzes the ambitions and anxieties of figures high and low in the Times hierarchy. Managing Editor Clifton Daniel's fortunes have declined under Punch, Talese figures, but the publisher's cousin, John Oakes, editor of the editorial page, remains in favor, "attacking issues with an aggressiveness that Adolph Ochs would have never tolerated, and sniping at important people once regarded within the Times as 'sacred cows.'" Oakes, says Talese, enjoys controversy and has "what amounts to total freedom" to provoke...
...House in Lincoln Center opened in 1966, the Times' architecture, music, dance and art critics all took it to task. This pained many Times executives, anxious to promote New York City whenever possible. "My God, couldn't they find anything good to write about?" said the anguished Punch Sulzberger. Still, Talese emphasizes that Sulzberger "expressed his feelings to a few executives, but there was no hint of restraining the critics...