Word: ramsey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these semi-illicit gatherings we attracted such figures as Ramsey Clark, Dr. John Knowles, Norman Mailer, FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, Congressman Morris Udall, Justin Kaplan, literary agent Sterling Lord, Roger Wilkins, William Styron,Professor Howard Zinn of Boston University, and Harvard professors, including Wald, Galbraith, and Riesman. We hosted correspondents fresh from Vietnam, blacks representing all degrees of militancy, students of varied ideological stripes, urbanologists, magazine editors, former ambassadors, and a gaggle of ex-aides to Presidents. These provided the most valuable experiences of the Nieman season and revealed, I think, what the program might become in the hands...
...Corporation's announcement last week that it wanted a man with a primary academic commitment, politicians should by all rights be excluded. Ramsey Clark is a politician: A Justice Department lawyer under Bobby Kennedy and Attorney General under Johnson. His academic credentials are pretty meager compared to those of the other four: two years at the University of Texas, where he graduated with an A.B.; another year and a half at the University of Chicago where he simultaneously took his law degree and a masters in history. He's been to Harvard less than ten times...
Senator George McGovern is again fanning his fragile presidential hopes. He has opened an office in Washington and is sounding out sentiment in key states. Senators Birch Bayh, Walter F. Mondale and Harold Hughes occupy the dark-horse stable; former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and New York Mayor John Lindsay, a tenuous Republican, may rent stalls in it. Though a great deal can happen before 1972, they will find Ed Muskie a considerable way around the track...
...splitting its votes among several dove candidates, as had happened in 1968. A "citizens' caucus" nominated Drinan, then threw money and volunteers behind him. Drinan, 49, conducted an expensive television campaign and was photographed with such prominent personalities as New York Mayor John Lindsay and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
...that figure was attacked last week by Ramsey Clark, the Attorney General who had preceded John Mitchell. He complained that it "implied that the job is done, when, in fact, it is far from done." Testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Clark argued that even when a school district is classified officially as having been desegregated, the actual number of black students sitting in classrooms with whites too often remains insignificantly small. Clark's point is, of course, quite valid, but so is the Administration's effort to take the necessary first steps against...