Word: transcript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adam Wyngate is a meandering, overstuffed family saga, all too full of the human tedium which the skilled novelist suggests without reporting in grim detail. Clumsily written and badly in need of saving irony, The Son of Adam Wyngate reads more like an unedited transcript of family disaster than a dramatic portrait...
Besides its program of talks, Gold announced that the Forum is printing up a transcript of last December's debate on academic freedom between Allen A. Zoll, executive vice-president of the National Council for American Education, McGeorge Bundy, associate professor of Government, and Carey McWilliams, associate editor of the Nation. The pamphlet should be ready within the next month, Gold said...
...corruption finally became too obvious. The Boston Transcript commented: "Payrolls in Cambridge show a curious increase at election time, particularly in the street department. During the week of August 5, the street department payroll was $16,100. It was gradually built up until during the week of November 11, it had jumped to $41,500. A week later, indicating the extent to which the taxpayers' money had been used for political purposes, the payrolls in the department dropped to $21,500--half that of the preceding week...
...four weeks of tracking down Washington's influence peddlers, the Senate's subcommittee on investigations had interviewed 32 witnesses and piled up 2,432 pages of transcript. Last week it wound up its hearings with testimony about relations between the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Democratic and Republican national chairmen...
Nonetheless, McCarthy left his listeners gasping at his bravery when he challenged Duran, Jessup, Acheson & Co. to sue him for libel, since "there is no immunity that surrounds this podium here today." But again the McCarthy tongue had been quicker than the ear. In cold transcript, his apparently offhand statements turned out to be well protected by testimony already in the legislative record, or phrased behind a lawyer's calculated vagueness...