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Cunningham's Seagram job is a prize, but it may not equal the job she lost at Bendix. Agee had made her his top assistant in charge of planning the corporation's intended metamorphosis from a staid manufacturing and natural resources concern into a high-technology conglomerate. Seagram has a task of similar magnitude: it must invest the $2.3 billion that it reaped last year from the sale of its U.S. oil and gas properties. But Cunningham will not be directly involved in this enterprise...
...Establishment had been squawking like chickens with a fox in their coop. The fox, of course, was Rupert Murdoch, the high-rolling Australian press lord, best known for his torrid tabloids. His purchase of the ailing Times of London (circ. 279,000) raised fears that he would vulgarize the staid 196-year-old newspaper with sex and sensation. But last week the din subsided. The reason: Murdoch, 49, named Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans to the top job at the venerable daily. Evans, 52, an esteemed journalist and a passionate campaigner for press freedom, is also tough-an important quality...
...lord of the tabloids. He gained a foothold in New York with the racy Post, then reached for a more literate audience with New York magazine and the Village Voice. Now the Australian publisher has reached an agreement to purchase one of the world's most staid and revered publications, the Times of London...
Similarly, Walzer's ideas as a young radical intellectual evinced a sense of political urgency. His arguments may not have always been clearly reasoned, but they sparkled with the anticipation of a radically different and much better world. His maturation as he approached middle-age has involved a more staid and withdrawn perception of political realities, reverting to more abstract and idealistic conceptualization. He originally developed his ideas on morality in warfare to politicize his opposition to the Vietnam war. But the final product of this thinking, Just and Unjust Wars, was not published until 1977. A masterpiece of careful...
Steel places passages from Lippmann's staid and elegant writing expressing his reactions to political events within the larger framework of Lippmann's thought--his continual twists of opinion regarding the efficacy of democratic government and especially the challenge the new Keynesian liberalism posed to American freedom and morality. And there were some twists that are hard to fit into any framework...