Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Editor Walter Burns make his wishes known to Reporter Hildy Johnson in that 1928 Broadway classic The Front Page. Generations of fire-breathing editors have embraced this persuasive management technique, but one news'executive is flirting with an unusual alternative: democracy. At the Minneapolis Star (circ. 226,828), rank-and-file editorial employees have been given an active role in deciding how to reshape their foundering evening paper...
Between 1959 and 1963, Wills wrote books on Chesterton, Catholicism and Roman culture, in addition to working on a doctoral dissertation on Aeschylus. During the '60s, his pieces in Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post established him as a journalist of the first rank. His Nixon Ag- onistes (1969) still has the longest shelf-life of any book on the former President. Last year Historian Wills published Inventing America, a fresh look at the roots of Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. The work has already won several literary prizes. A few weeks ago, he was holed...
...Rogers and three committee members contemplate a fat computer printout. It measures, in code, the credentials of the 11,421 high school seniors who have applied to Brown. Next to each applicant's name, a long string of numbers and cryptic abbreviations shows college board scores, class rank, grade-point average and a preliminary rating for academic promise and personal quality on a scale of 1 to 6. Other symbols reveal more: "LEG 1" is a legacy, the son of a Brown alumnus. "M1" is a black; "M8" a Chicano. "50" means the Brown football coach is interested...
Rogers and his committee begin with 25 applicants from a high-pressure high school in a prosperous Midwestern suburb. They rapidly reject a dozen students with mediocre grades and below-550 board scores, then slow down. The prospects begin to look alike: board scores in the 600s, class rank in the top fifth. Many applicants from competitive schools realize this and mail in poems, photo albums, homemade cookies, anything to stand out. One student has sent an 8-by-10 glossy of himself water-skiing at a 30° angle, spray flying, muscles rippling. Others have mailed in serious portfolios...
...other, leaving him in sole possession of American politics' high ground--the middle of the road. In trying to wrest that position from him, Brown may try to talk out of both sides of his mouth to different groups, and attempt to sell this anti-Democratic package to the rank and file. How flimsy such a challenge would be is made obvious when the intimidating possibility of a Kennedy campaign is contemplated, likely only if no other suitably liberal candidate emerges...