Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Outlandish Politics. In a broadside letter of resignation, he called Schneider's decision 1) a "mockery of the Paley-Stanton crusade for broadest access to congressional debate," and 2) a "business, not a news judgment." Moreover, he added, the revised chain of command was an "emasculation" of his authority, a surrender to a man, he contemptuously noted, whose "news credentials were limited in the past to local station operations, with little experience in national or international affairs." In short, it was a stand for principle, and the emotional Friendly included in his letter references to his longtime colleague Edward...
Since Friendly had made such a big case out of a disagreeable administrative decision, Paley and Stanton had to stick with their group V.P., all of which only underscored the absurdity of TV's outlandish office politics. For devotees of television's best work, it was too bad. Fred Friendly, for all his hair-triggery, brought much high-quality programming to television, won many prizes for his documentary work (See It Now, CBS Reports), and helped to make Ed Murrow an event...
Quill's original demands on the Transit Authority were so outlandish that few people took them seriously. In a 76-point package, which he blandly labeled "very modest requests," Quill demanded that the Authority increase the T.W.U.'s contract for 1966-67 by nearly 2,000% over the old one-including an increase of more than $2 per hour, a 32-hour week, and six weeks of vacation after one year on the job (present vacation: five weeks after 25 years). The Transit Authority figured that the package would cost $680 million, or one-fifth of the entire...
...visited home for the weekend that it has now become frequent practice in the Houses at Harvard for undergraduates to have pets in their rooms. My son mentioned cats as being the most common, but it seems that there are also numerous mice, rats, gerbilles (which are an outlandish species of Mongolian desert rat), and various amphibians as well as the permitted fish...
...East Coast last week, city dwellers were almost pathetically glad to be released from their routine and from their machines, finding adventure of sorts in the simple business of walking down stairs or directing traffic in darkened streets. Adventurers are driven to figure out ever new, ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard...