Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson knotted the score minutes later on a goal by Doug Thompson, and an unassisted score by winger Murray Dea gave Harvard a 3-2 lead...
...scored his second goal at the end of the period to cut Mass Bay's lead to one. Then, only two minutes into the final frame, Thompson scored his second goal to tie the game...
...wandering. At first glance, it's difficult to see how someone of Cockburn's credentials could be the logical successor to a maniac like Thompson. His fatner was Claud Cockburn, the British Communist journalist of the 1930's, and Cockburn himself started out on the editorial board of New Left Review, the kind of magazine which was the first to publish Althusser's "Contradiction and Over-determination" in English. But when confronted with American popular culture, he went wild. On a serious level, Cockburn is in the forefront of a group of leftist journalists writing in a wide variety...
Anyway, Cockburn is suited to these times because he understands what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." The wild-eyed potential generalissimos of Thompson's day have given way to the faceless bureaucrats, unknown corporate executives and "liberal" intellectuals who really make the rules. His weekly columns written with Ridgeway--an Institute for PolicyStudiesradical--under the heading of Surplus Value (economic issues) and The Greasy Pole (presidential politics), are generally thoughtful and serious pieces. Cockburn saves his true Private Eye spirit for the Press Clips. Also featured are "Dear Dr. Pressclips; Helpful Hints for Harried Hacks" (where Marshall Frady...
...despite the awarding of prizes like the C.L. Sulzberger Memorial Plate and the Franco-Quinlan Memorial Tent, Cockburn is a serious and orthodox journalist. Unlike Thompson, he uses sources and formal interviews--he has credibility. Not only is he the best media critic in the country, he is seriously committed to social change, and is an important critic of society as well. His articles on the business community fill a gap that has been the greatest flaw in American journalism for year. But all with a light touch--when he tells us that California oil and banking interests have traded...