Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When I submitted an ad of my Toward World Brotherhood to World Report, its Vice President in Charge of Advertising returned the check with the comment: "We do not think, however, that our columns can be available for this type of advertising, since we are quite sure it will involve us in controversy with other sects. If you feel there is some other way of writing your copy so that the controversial angle will not appear, then we'd be perfectly happy to run it." Is there any field except sectarianism where a great national magazine feels it must avoid...
...annual rate covering all meals. As a sophomore, he organized a seminar to study curriculum reform. It was so successful that he was paid $800 from the dean's special fund to spend a summer writing up the seminar's recommendations. Result: the 415-page "Magaziner Report," which Harvard Sociologist David Riesman has called "a herculean effort, an impressive document...
Magaziner's principal recommendations are that collegians be allowed to choose courses in broad intellectual areas that interest them, rather than follow fixed requirements, and that conventional grades be abolished in favor of "pass" or "no credit." His report also urges professors to focus on concepts rather than narrow facts, and to work far more closely with individual students. These ideas are not especially original; Magaziner's achievement is the persuasive logic of his presentation...
...Clout. Though his report got wide attention, Magaziner felt that Brown was slow in carrying it out. As a result, he staged mass rallies to push his reforms, organized three-student teams to work on every faculty member and turned his gift of gab on the administration. As president of the student body (and class president for all four years), he had the clout to mobilize hundreds of disciples with a single telephone call, which set off a chain of calls across the campus. In May, the university finally approved the new curriculum for a two-year experimental period...
...balance Reston's less blatant but equally tenacious ambition, and his curious notion that what is good for Reston and the Times is good for the U.S. as well. This peculiar confusion of allegiances, Talese suggests, led Reston, "on grounds of national security," to help doctor a report on the Bay of Pigs which, if printed when and as written, might have prevented the attack from being launched...