Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though South Boston did not quite go to hell, Hager's remark underscored a dilemma for journalists. The agreement to play it cool was well intentioned. That most Boston newsmen cooperated in carrying it out doubtless helped authorities to maintain a degree of order in a potentially calamitous situation. But there is a danger in self-censorship. In its desire to avoid provocative excesses, the Boston press came perilously close to a kind of news management that can distort coverage just as surely as sensationalism. To dictate the tone of reportage even before the event occurs can create...
...chance remark came in answer to criticism of the Administration's restrictive economic policies during a minisummit on social services held at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Arguing against cuts in social services, Jerry Wurf, fiery president of the State, County and Municipal Employees Union, charged that Government policies aim to shunt most of the burden of fighting inflation on the poor. Replying that everyone is hurt by inflation, Greenspan said: "If you really wanted to examine, percentagewise, who is hurt most in their incomes, it is the Wall Street brokers...
...first Harvard score should be met with a blah remark: "Nice play. But there's a lot of time left, you know." The first Crimson mistake demands a snide comment: "They stink. They always stink. Another losing season." The key is to deny your Harvard allegiances...
...malaise. In addition, TIME's domestic correspondents were asked to add a personal dimension to the story by finding out how individual Americans are coping-or not coping-with inflation. The resulting vignettes, which accompany Church's piece, amply illustrate the truth of President Ford's remark that ordinary citizens are at least as aware of the wobbliness of the economy as the experts...
...blurted out his feelings about his father, who had never allowed him to crew for him during local Thistle-class races back home: "I could crew for you," John says angrily. "I could be a pair of hands for you, but you could never crew for me." The remark, Lipscomb acknowledges bitterly, was just. So was John's anger on another occasion when his father playfully tried to throw him into a tropical harbor. Furious because his father could take liberties that he could not, John offered to fight...