Word: ziegler
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...student government of Boston University's School of Public Communication voted Monday to rescind its invitation to former White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler to speak at the school next month...
Administrators' and students' belief that "Ziegler's actions as press secretary do not represent what the school stands for" prompted the student government to change its plans, Debbie Kogan, treasurer of the student government, said yesterday...
John Wicklein, dean of the School of Public Communication, said yesterday he thought it "morally wrong" for the student government to pay Ziegler to speak. Ziegler had requested a lecture fee of $2500 and expenses...
...Ziegler knowingly lied to the press and people of the country and did his best to subvert the First Amendment guarantees of a free press," Wicklein said...
...Watergate is just the tip of the iceberg of America's language, according to Newman. In addition to all of its other implications, Watergate also "revealed the sad state of language,"from the president on down, through Ehrlichman and Haldeman,through Ron Ziegler, through the press with its acceptance of euphemistic explanations from government officials, through the political candidates with their sterile, ingratiating speeches, through the social scientists with their unwieldy terminology,through the ad men with their ready, mindless sales pitches, right down to the proffessional athletes with their trugid comments, to the small restaurants using foreign names...