Word: sages
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Died. William Lindsay White, 73, editor and publisher of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette and son of William Allen White, the Pulitzer-prizewinning "sage of Emporia"; of cancer; in Emporia. A World War II correspondent for 40 daily newspapers, White in 1942 wrote They Were Expendable, a novel about PT-boat combat in the Pacific that was made into a John Wayne movie. Returning to Emporia in 1944 after his father's death, he maintained the Gazette's reputation for lively editorials...
Ervin, of course, is the wise old sage of the hearings. Like a visiting uncle, he dispenses his pearls of wisdom with droll humor and biblical quotations. But it is when he gets angry that Ervin is at his best, Ervin, like none of the others, can bear down on a witness, cutting directly to the heart of the testimony and making clear the full implications of that testimony. His dogged emphasis on the Constitution and the ways in which it has been abused by a particular witness puts the matter in its proper, sweeping perspective...
...that final act - and the play that preceded it. It is television's job to provide the stage. It has done that job admirably. As of now, the country can only be grateful, and the wisest political seer can do no more than mouth five magic words, the sage advice of TV announcers immemorial: Tune in tomorrow...
...political warfare raging in Washington under the name Watergate, there have been some startling shifts of viewpoint. Conservative Sage Barry Goldwater produced one of the first surprises when he turned against Richard Nixon and declared that the Watergate mess "smells." Goldwater was wryly saluted by Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter, as "the liberals' favorite conservative." Not so. J. Edgar Hoover now looks upright and independent by comparison to L. Patrick Gray III. Even Vice President Agnew inspired the Washington Post to contemplate the prospect of a Nixon retirement and observe that his successor might...
...reviewer, is that "if you buy what the media are selling, you get shoddy, short-lived goods, that the task of the times may be to close one's mind to the flow of easy symbols and pre-packaged interpretations." Maynard is being peddled by the media as our sage, and her introspection, though appealing, is directionless, as she readily admits. Now that Maynard has accumulated a following of the wornout, there doesn't seem to be anyplace to lead it. Her next book will be about doll houses, which along with TV was her childhood passion. I guess...