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...Lincoln Park the turnout for this, the first demonstration, is very small. About 300 people are gathered around a bonfire fueled by park benches. Another 200 newspapermen and spectators stand around the edges. It is very sad. They had announced 1500 would show, and were really expecting 800. It is undeniably terrible when any left political movement turns out to have far less support than it needs, when the people you thought you had won don't care to show...
Thomson downplayed the drop in female members of the incoming class, explaining that the field of journalists has opened up "vastly" since he took over as curator of the Foundation ten years ago. When the Fellowships began in 1938, the letterheads read "Nieman Foundation for Newspapermen"; it has since been changed to Nieman Foundation for Journalism...
...Carozza) being carried off the stage. The focus changes quickly. We are plunged into the tribunal hearings to determine the facts of the deaths. The inquiry lasts throughout the play, but the proceedings are punctuated by flashbacks and seemingly irrelevant commentary by unrelated characters such as an American sociologist, newspapermen, and visitors to a bar. This technique, the appearance of outside characters, usually succeeds in providing external perspectives on the tragedy, but the patchwork of a plot often slacks off as characters go off onto unnecessary tangents...
...short and wearing a rumpled, off-green sports jacket, journalist-gray pants and one of those knit ties cut straight across at the bottom. Chomping on a cigar--unlit, naturally--he was riding the down escalator into a hotel lobby, jabbering at a bunch of other Washington newspapermen. Then came an opportunity for a joke...
...enough to have eight competing newspapers any more, and probably no modern managing editor would ignore an earthquake in which a million Chinese died to preserve a human interest story about a rooster. Yet the play still works as media criticism and, even more, as a psychological portrait of newspapermen: brawling boys in love with spectacle and hubbub, literally snapping towels at each other in a courthouse pressroom flanked by lockers...