Word: tumult
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...outpouring of adulation from journalists across the country. Some of the hyperbole lavished on the retired columnist and author--The Boston Globe's obituary labeled him the dean of American journalism, The New York Times's told of how he'd brought "reason, clarity and ethics to the tumult and intrigue of politics"--may have derived from the respect Lippmann attracted just for surviving so long, for maintaining the same principles and style through ten presidential administrations and dozens of changes of political fashion. But since a lot of the hyperbole focuses on just those aspects of Lippmann's writing...
...unlike most of those one-time socialists who wound up celebrating the American consensus, Lippmann suffered no traumatic disillustionment, no sudden or gradual discovery that led him to discard his earlier views. Right from the beginning, his hopes centered not on revolutionary uproar or change, not on the tumult and intrigue of politics, but on solutions quietly worked out by responsible public officials limited by a strong system of checks and balances, on the reason, clarity and ethics he believed intellectuals like himself could bring to government. From the beginning, Lippmann distrusted an uneducated public for what he considered...
...media," he said, "flourish under scandal, disaster, tumult in any form they can get it . . ." Further, U.S. journalism virtually alone caused the "death of the civil rights movement." Epstein rapped newsmen for the decline in the quality of presidential campaigns and objected to "those odious Exxon and Mobil...
Great events produce newspapers and magazines that people instinctively preserve for their historic import. But most Americans today who have set aside issues of the recent momentous weeks to relive the tumult with their children and grandchildren will, 50 years hence, confront what today's grandparent usually finds on a trip to the attic - crumbling, yellowed newspapers inexorably turning to dust. A few years ago an assistant professor of librarianship at the University of Washington named Richard Smith devised a simple formula for ensuring the survival of history-making newsprint. His innovation is ripe for use now. The recipe...
...escape the tumult, many government officials and businessmen did not bother to come to work. West German President Gustav Heinemann loaded several bundles of documents in his car and drove off to his country house. When one Bonn burgher called information to get the emergency number of the municipal hospital, the answer was a gale of shrieking laughter...