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...Regular journalists like Daniel Schorr were on the list," he said...
Among some children's advocates, enthusiasm has faded for homegrown, experimental approaches. In 1988 Lisbeth Schorr and her husband, National Public Radio's Daniel Schorr, wrote Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage, which enthusiastically described 24 new programs for children. Today half of them are gone, and Schorr has had a change of heart about what such initiatives can accomplish. "Foundations fund innovative programs for several years with the idea that when they work, public funds will pick up the cost and continue the program," she says. "But that hasn't happened for years. It's an illusion...
Also remarkable are the senuous forms of Anders Zorn's ninteenth-century nudes and his well-rendered, impressionistic "Omnibus," with hatching strokes powerfully suggesting the jostled weight of human bodies. A tight, involved etching by contemporary artist David Schorr and a striking and politically charged work in an intense blue aquatint by Douglas Dowd are similarly unexpected highlights of the exhibit. These works show the range of etching as a medium of both great precision and, at times, emotional impact...
Watergate, a five-hour documentary series produced for the BBC by Norma Percy (The Second Russian Revolution), narrated by former CBS and CNN correspondent Daniel Schorr and airing next week on the Discovery Channel, is a refresher course that shouldn't be missed. Lucid and laconic, unsparing but never sanctimonious, it retells the Watergate story in patient, no-nonsense detail. Here, once again, is the paranoid Nixon White House of the early '70s, so obsessed with political foes that it had a psychiatrist's office burglarized to get dirt on Daniel Ellsberg (who had released the Pentagon papers) and ordered...
...White spoke of the race between the things that are and the things that seem to be," Schorr said. "Today, the things that seem to be are running far ahead. I just hope that a younger generation of journalists will run hard to reclaim the things that...