Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispute creates a serious split in the M.L.A. Either the non-radicals will manage to end what they consider the dissidents' "subversion" or many of them will quit. The dissidents insist that it is not their aim to take over the association or drive its members out. All they want, they say, is to "put humanism back into the humanities." In the process, they are raising another problem: how to keep professors in the organization...
...thoughtless and tenuous" journalism that offers readers only a "heterogeneous hodgepodge of triviality." After making that harsh generalization in an ambitious new book that assesses the press on a global scale, John C. Merrill, a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri, nonetheless contends that the number of "serious, intellectually oriented journals with cosmopolitan outlooks" is growing steadily. They constitute what he calls "the elite press," and that is the title of his book (Pitman; $7.95). Merrill not only ticks off the top newspapers by name, but also ranks 100 of them in descending degrees to form the "Merrill...
Merrill, 44, holds a Ph.D. in mass communications from the University of Iowa and has spent three years checking out his impressions of foreign newspapers, including visits to the home offices of many of them. He defines the elite as "the concerned papers, the knowledgeable papers, the serious papers and the papers which serious people and opinion leaders in all countries take seriously." That definition embraces the captive press of authoritarian societies as well as the best of the free press in the West. Merrill's book provides brief profiles of 40 newspapers, but its value rests...
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich)-The most individual, the most serious, the most responsible and the most cosmopolitan. From its lofty pinnacle in its neutral and freedom-loving country, it views all the world with a cold and intellectual detachment...
Died. Major Arthur W. Beckstrom, 33, highly decorated U.S. Air Force pilot (20 medals of valor, including the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross), who survived 202 combat missions in Viet Nam without serious injury; in the crash of his RF-101 Voodoo reconnaissance jet while on a training flight; near Blue Ridge...