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...Broadcast Group. Indeed, except for its length, the AIM program seems little different from -- or more troubling than -- the "editorial replies" run frequently by local stations or guest editorials on a newspaper's op-ed page. The danger is that the Viet Nam skirmish may intensify. AIM Chairman Reed Irvine is contemplating a reply to ABC's recent three-hour documentary on the nuclear threat. Says Irvine: "I'd love to do a program showing the other side of that coin...
...high school students, drew more than 500 submissions in three areas: national events, world affairs and a feature category. A panel of educators from around the country winnowed the articles to 15 in each group. They were then sent on to Senior Writer Ed Magnuson and Associate Editor J.D. Reed. Says Magnuson: "I look forward to the exercise. And I'm always impressed by the quality of the writing." For Reed, a former teacher of creative writing, evaluating student writing is an agreeably familiar task. "Judging these essays brings out all of my professorial impulses," he says...
Author and Columbia Teachers College Professor DIANE RAVITCH at Reed College in Portland: "You have just completed what is widely regarded as an elite education, not because only an elite deserves a liberal education or can benefit by a liberal education, but because fewer and fewer American students are actually receiving an education of comparable quality and breadth. A liberal education is founded on the premise that knowledge is power and that ideas move the world. Or, this idea is expressed in what is known as the Law of Selective Advancement (a relative of Murphy's Law): 'The person...
Thomson's romance with the dark side of American cinema leads to complicated relationships. Laura Hunt's older sister is Mary Frances Bailey (Donna Reed), wife of George Bailey (James Stewart) of It's a Wonderful Life. Those who must believe the worst about even the nicest people will be pleased to learn that George and Sister-in-Law Laura enjoyed a pre-Christmas tryst at New York City's Pierre Hotel. Julian Kay (Richard Gere in American Gigolo) was born in an asylum, son of the mad Norma Desmond and Screenwriter Joe Gillis, whom she shot in the last...
...like the rest of the business world, journalism is moderating its ways. Notes Associate Editor J.D. Reed, who wrote the story on America's changing drinking habits: "The situation has reversed. People see alcohol not as part of their career but as something that could conceivably mess it up." San Francisco Reporter Jane Ferguson realized how much journalism had changed when she and two colleagues raised their glasses at lunch to toast another writer. Says she: "What was in our glasses? Bottled mineral water. Not a drop of alcohol for any of us." Washington Reporter Susan Schindehette also finds abstemiousness...