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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is need for a thorough, dispassionate biography of Murrow, one that could assess his precise contributions to American journalism--and to modern relations between the news media and Government during his stint as director of the U.S. Information Agency in the Kennedy Administration. Ann M. Sperber, a former book editor and freelance writer, has doggedly undertaken the task in Murrow: His Life and Times. Her volume is nothing if not inclusive: it mentions head colds and household accidents, and is replete with sometimes pointless anecdotes in which Murrow is at most a peripheral figure--half a page, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Voice in the Wilderness Murrow: His Life and Times | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...student," saysBrennon Wood, Kenworthy's tutor and thesisadvisor. The thesis analyzed the radicalizationprocess in the 1960s of the Students for aDemocratic Society and the Socialist WorkersParty. "He's very quiet and it's hard to knowwhat's going on in his head, but he's a very goodstudent, very thorough and concerned about thematerial," Wood says...

Author: By Matthew A. Saal, | Title: Changing Lanes | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...LATTER is true, then the University should consider a thorough revamping. But if that's not so, and the letter is just an example of the administration's concern that alumni can't vote without someone to tell them which lever to pull, then Derek Bok needs to be instructed of his error. Maybe then such paternalistic, unilateral decision-making will be avoided in the future...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: More Oversight, Please | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...diary . . . little by little it began to turn itself into a story." So Katherine Anne Porter described the act of writing, and her alchemy of experience into story is as old as fiction itself. Some 3,000 instances of the process appear in The Originals, a witty and thorough compendium that traces novels, plays and tales back to their sources. No matter how extravagant the characters seem on the page, claims British Journalist William Amos, every one of them was based on an actual person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inspirations the Originals | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Returning to his paperwork, the marshal pulled out the fruits of his labor thus far, and in the doing made the point that he inherited a bureaucratic mess. The files are tidy now, and thorough, as is personnel. McNeely replaced the old crew with six new deputies. "Look here," he said, going back to the early entries in one journal. "Now look here," he said, flipping to recent jottings covering a like period of time. "Four pages of tickets rather than that one little dinky one. We had officers start doing their jobs. That's what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Taming a Troublesome Town | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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