Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...editorial "Patronage" (March 19) makes complicated issues too simple. To illustrate: a college president whom I know well and about whose zeal on behalf of minorities I have no doubt, started a new educational enterprise by going out actively to recruit women and blacks for major administrative positions. This was before the days of Affirmative Action. In due course, thanks perhaps in part to Affirmative Action operating in other institutions, he lost these recruits and now must proceed to find replacement. But, given the nature of the vacancies, he is convinced that the outcome, in the absence of "patronage," will...
Though Simons was commenting earlier and more generally about the mood of the Washington press corps, he raises what amounts to the same complex question. When does reportorial zeal violate the canons of fair play? Journalism's first mission, to publish all important information that can be learned, occasionally conflicts with other imperatives that must be considered. The press is universally barred from grand jury proceedings, for instance, partly to guard the reputations of people who may never be indicted. Secrecy also protects the prosecution's case from premature disclosure...
...tall, well-groomed lawyer proved his devotion as far back as 1960, when he worked with zeal and success to raise money for Nixon's unsuccessful bid for the presidency. Nixon never forgot. During his run for the White House in 1968, Kalmbach once again helped raise funds. After the election, Kalmbach turned down Nixon's offer to become Under Secretary of Commerce, choosing instead to stay in California and to build up his law practice. But he later agreed to serve as the President's personal lawyer...
...preeminence. Under Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, 52, the Post has tripled its 1965 news budget of $4,000,000, recruited some major talent. Bradlee's news-department staff of 379 is still smaller by almost 300 than the Times's, but it has a we-try-harder zeal. In one important respect the Post is clearly superior to the New York Times: its nine editorial writers, led by Editor Philip L. Geyelin and Deputy Meg Greenfield, produce wise, reasoned, dispassionate commentary. The paper's political staff, under Pulitzer- prizewinning Columnist David Broder, is perhaps the most knowledgeable...
Duke's zeal is unusual in that he has spent $3,000 of his own on the Geraway case; moreover, he has little practical experience in criminal matters. A onetime clerk to Justice William O. Douglas, Duke was a tax specialist when he joined the Yale faculty in 1960. There his interests changed. "Who cares whether a corporation pays X dollars or Y dollars?" asks Duke now. "Economists do not even agree on who bears the burden of a corporate tax, so how can you get excited when you can't even tell what people are ultimately paying...