Word: severeid
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Harvard sophomore Jeremy C. Severeid paced the convention floor, plastered with Weld stickers, a Weld T-shirt and a two-foot tall hat constructed from a Weld poster...
...want to get involved because I think I can help," Severeid said. "There are so many people at Harvard who scream about democracy and better government but sit on their asses come election time. I have no respect for those people...
...worst, most hopeless period of history; at the very least, each period was compared unfavorably to the past. That is a symptom of Americanism that dates to the Jacksonian Era. I do not suggest any of that; even so it is difficult not so sound like (God forbid) Eric Severeid. It is the general, but by no means pervasive, comfort of America today that makes the '70s so inert and dangerous. But every intelligent person clucks over the headlines each day and then forgets them, unless they directly affect him or her. And no one does anything. Despite the claims...
Northshield dislikes blatant editorializing on TV; he is mildly contemptuous of the kind of thing Eric Severeid does for CBS. But he says with unabashed frankness that "there is no such thing as objectivity in television reporting, not so long as it involves human feelings." And he does not apologize for it. And anyway, the public outcry against the networks was not a reaction against non-objective reporting or the result of a credibility gap between network and public. On the contrary, he says, the outcry resulted from the complete credibility TV has for the public -- the result of merging...
...decided that Severeid's script was editorial, not analytical," Day continued. "There was no time to rewrite it, so we kept the program...