Word: tensest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press conference questioning last week of Ronald Reagan, polite but persistent, surprised even the journalists themselves. William Safire called it the "tensest" Reagan conference so far. The controversy over Jimmy Carter's briefing book may soon fade, but the sharper questioning suggests a changing attitude in the press. Antagonism between the President and the press corps has been at its lowest level in 20 years. The civility has been welcome, but has the public interest been served? Lou Cannon, White House correspondent of the Washington Post and author of a first-rate biography of Ronald Reagan, says, "I think...
...March the distinguished former (and first Black) mayor of Atlanta. Maynard Jackson, delivered four brilliant lectures here. A man who skillfully guided his city through one of the tensest racial climates in American history (i.e. during the child murders) drew less than 10 Black undergraduates for all of the lectures combined. At a well advertised dinner discussion. Dr. Jean Nobel, noted Black historian and women's rights activist, drew only one Black undergraduate (and fortunately several Black Graduate students and staff.) Recently, Dr. Samuel Proctor--a leading Black educator scholar, holder of the Martin Luther King professorship Rutgers and pastor...