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...member panel established last year by the Twentieth Century Fund to monitor press fairness and accuracy...
...reappraisal of The Senator Joseph McCarthy Affair," which gives us cause for hope; to underline the point, he subtitles it, "A Story Without a Hero." But if you thought that his dispassionate study would strip away the polemics and reveal the historical significance of the political turnaround in mid-twentieth century America, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Thomas fell into the onion trap; he was so busy stripping away he forgot to leave anything over; and his book, to switch vegetables, has all the force of a squeezed lemon...
Established and partially supported by the Twentieth Century Fund, a smallish New York-based foundation, the council has spent much of its first nine months dealing with trivialities. It is not a record that pleases its members, an eclectic group drawn from print and broadcast journalism as well as the law, civil rights and other fields.* Executive Director William Arthur, a former editor of Look, blames the council's slow beginnings on public ignorance of its existence and on the naiveté of early complaints. "Too many of them had to do with editorial opinion rather than accuracy...
Three centuries of tonality have led the modern listener to expect certain familiar kinds of progressive harmonies, but masses and motets written in the old church modes presuppose a different set of expectations. Just as the modal fabric of Renaissance music is foreign to the twentieth century ear, the context of modern music--a permanent background of muzak in supermarkets, television soundtracks and the stereo next door--bears no resemblance to the silence that Byrd and Gesualdo labored to fill. There are no grand gestures in this music, nothing simple for the listener or the performer to grab onto...
Atop a Manhattan apartment building, General Motors Heir Stewart Mott tends some 200 varieties of vegetables and herbs on a twentieth-of-an-acre penthouse spread that houses six chickens and a working compost heap...