Word: shannons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Robert F. Kennedy, urban disorder, student rebellion and widespread social tumult, public servants and assorted experts furiously, and inconclusively, debated the role of television in feeding violence. This time, however, the controversy has centered more on newsmagazines. In last Wednesday's New York Times, Columnist William V. Shannon, Novelist Saul Bellow and Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz separately lambasted TIME and Newsweek for putting Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme on their covers. In Washington, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott asked rhetorically: "Do cover stories in national newsmagazines incite to violence...
Suspicion Rampant. Yet how much is too much? "To try to avoid agitating other disordered minds," suggested the Times's William Shannon, "the media could withhold photographs of the would-be assassins and play down detailed coverage of their lives." Few editors would accept the notion of such self-censorship. Once it became known that editors and reporters were suppressing or playing down stories for whatever reasons, suspicion would be rampant. Says Norman E. Isaacs, publisher of the Wilmington, Del., News and Journal and editor-in-residence at the Columbia University School of Journalism: "The amount of rumor would...
Moreover, when journalists begin substituting other considerations for their own honest news judgment, it is impossible to know where to stop: they open themselves to all sorts of pressures, both from Government and private groups. Warned Shannon's colleague William Safire: "The news has its own free market, and if editors put their notions of the public interest ahead of their responsibility to satisfy the public's interest, a vital freedom would be lost." Most of their peers would see no irreconcilable conflict between freedom and responsibility. Says Norman Isaacs: "There must be a sense of discretion...
Clarinet trios by Beethoven and Brahms; David Archibald, clarinet, Shannon Shapp, cello, and David Witten, Piano; Mather Dining Hall...
...rehearsal the next night is for the chorus. Thirteen basses, tenors, altos and sopranos are huddled at one end of Shannon in a semicircle around Krag and the piano. Jay Banks, a Gilbert and Sullivan "groupie," is the accompanist. He's a small man, with brown hair, a brown beard, brown rimmed glasses, and a penchant for bright colored turtlenecks. He's a physics major at Harvard and has been involved in a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan shows, often unofficially. He has no part in Princess Ida but he comes to most of the rehearsals and often gives Krag...