Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What gives Murrow his big edge in prestige and following over his rivals? He does not write so well as his own colleagues Sevareid and Howard K. Smith, or ad-lib with the graceful ease of ABC's John Daly, CBS's Walter Cronkite and Robert Trout, or analyze the news with the pungency of ABC's Quincy Howe. As a reporter, he is not always as knowledgeable as ABC's Edward P. Morgan. Murrow's pontifical superficialities in his pundit's dialogue with Sevareid in CBS's presidential-election coverage last year...
...honors work in the senior year. As one of the four examiners, newly appointed, who wrote and graded the examination I can assure you that setting up what you call a "loaded" examination for thinning out the field never entered our minds. We met through the spring to write what we hoped would be a mature kind of examination, one which eliminated course-type questions and gave more play to a student's intellectual independence and imagination--the qualities, we felt, of good honors candidates. Nothing like a "tutor shortage" existed then or now. The twelve losses of last spring...
...growth of the good student to good tutor ratio, decided to eliminate some of the students, thus raising standards for honors while bettering tutorial. The Committee told the bottom quarter of junior concentrators last spring that they had failed their general exams and would not be able to write theses. The previous year, no junior failed on his History and Lit. generals...
Sorry for giving what they admitted was a "loaded" exam and seeing that many concentrators with honor grades could no longer go out for honors and write theses, the tutors pulled a complete about face. They promised to recommend each concentrator, who failed, for a senior-year course reduction, in which he or she could write a protothesis--a thesis-length term paper. This move did not greatly ease the tutor shortage...
...their ABCs and one-two-threes, scored far better on the state elementary exams than Superintendent Montanari's Freinetized pupils. This June Montanari vengefully flunked half of the conventtrained girls. The trick fooled no one. Parents suddenly realized that Montanari was not teaching their children to read, write or add. Said the wife of one leading party member: "After two years my daughter Paola could not count up to ten. When I asked her, she just gave me a pained look...