Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taciturn, scholarly, pipe-smoking Bostonian who spent most of his professional years on Massachusetts papers, Lyons was a logical choice for the post. His reporting was often concerned with the campus. One of his first scoops, for the Springfield, Mass., Republican, concerned an academic scandal at Amherst College that led to the forced resignation of Amherst President Alexander Meiklejohn. And even before departing the Boston Globe, his last paper, Lyons began doubling as a public relations aide to James B. Conant, then Harvard's president...
...Edward VII, Bertie changed his style of living not a whit, giving Britain the most colorful court it had seen since Charles II. If he skirted scandal, it was because no man alive better understood British upper-class tribal customs. When, during a divorce proceeding, the testimony of Lady Charles Mordaunt was read in court confessing that she had committed adultery with Bertie when he was Prince of Wales "often, and in open day," it proved embarrassing but not fatal, because Bertie had played his part honorably-visiting her Ladyship secretly and in a hired brougham in mid-afternoon...
There will not be much improvement until the politicians learn that theirs is a public responsibility, and until the public enforces it. One of the civil service commissioners, for example, appointed his own father city manager when he was mayor of his home town several years back. The ensuing scandal had no lasting effects for father or son. Though both were thrown out of office at the next election, they soon reappeared on the public payroll, the father as a $20,000 a year commissioner, and the son, with the sense of humor that is peculiar to Massachusetts, as chairman...