Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking of destruction of the will, the CRIMSON will only publish three times a week from now in. So read hearty...
...sent him to London--to write sports stories in the summer and cover the Foreign Office in the winter. That was his break. "I didn't even know what the map of Europe looked like," he says, "I had read, read, read." In 1939 he joined the New York Times bureau in London...
Reston's realization that policy must be reported while it is still being debated gave him his modus operandi: "Read the newspapers and raise in your own mind the unanswered questions. You can anticipate what the government will do, and, on the basis of that, go after it." This "projective analysis" became Reston's specialty. A good example was his prediction, in 1947, that Secretary of State James F. Byrnes was about to retire...
...himself is coyer about his methods. "I have often given the impression that I knew a little more than I did," he admits. But "obviously," he says, "if I go in to see George Ball and he's called out of the room, I don't get up and read the papers on his desk. It's just a question of common honesty...
...conclude with two warnings. First: the version of The Sleeping, Car Murder being shown in Boston is dubbed-rather well dubbed, actually (the speakers can act rather than just read, and the dialogue sounds fairly natural) but dubbed all the same. The voices are subtly inappropriate, the speakers are often too closely miked, and one misses the nuances of the movie actor's performances. Second: There is a short. Most charitably described as a show-and-tell exercise on the Impressionists, it should be seen only by the totally deaf...