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...TUM takes its name from a quote attributed to F.G. Bonfils, the late co-founder of the Denver Post: "There is no hope for the satisfied man." The group behind TUM is clearly not satisfied with the overall performance of newspapers and broadcast stations in their state. But, unlike some journalism critics, they seem determined to shun high-pitched polemics for a low-keyed, well-written analysis of the news media's ills...
...include the five girls and five other men who attended the cookout on Chappaquiddick. Arena will appear, as will Dr. Donald R. Wills, the Dukes County associate medical examiner, who pronounced Mary Jo's death an accidental drowning some eight or ten hours after Kennedy's sedan tum bled off the Dike Bridge...
...Tum-Te-Tum. Nor does Pound appear to have accepted the liturgical cadence of Eliot when he spoke in his own poetic voice. The opening of the Game of Chess section (originally called In the Cage) begins...
This passage, which evokes both Shakespeare's Cleopatra and the historic Queen Elizabeth (who were both barge owners), seemed to Pound as "too tum-te-tum at a stretch." Eliot fortunately could not help writing poetic poetry. His verse, as it was written, tum-te-tums today in many a mind, and the Boston lady's chair in that passage is still a "burnished throne...
...hitting more people harder than any in history. At least 21½ million Americans directly own corporate shares; another 100 million indirectly have a stake in the market through their holdings in mutual funds, pension funds, profit-sharing funds and the like. Last week the Dow-Jones industrial average tum bled again, by 30 points to 744, lowest since 1963. So far this year the market has plunged 25%, causing a loss of $120 billion, or an average of $2,000 for every U.S. family. These are euphemistically called paper losses - but in many instances they are very real...