Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During their two stretches of solid play, the cagers displayed accurate shooting inside and came up with several steals off of an effective man-to-man full court press. Neither team bothered with much defense, relying instead on the fairly regular flow of turnovers...
...Press customers are still buying natty clothes, but not so many of them. "Instead of buying two suits and a jacket, someone will buy just a suit and a jacket," manager Joseph Porta said. "People don't know what the future will bring but they do know that we have an after-Christmas sale," he added...
Carter, 44, has been Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs ever since Jimmy Carter (no kin) took office and is a favorite among the always skeptical Washington press corps. "He is the best guy I have seen in his job in 20 years," declares Boston Globe Columnist William Beecher...
After graduating from Radcliffe in 1963, Goodman worked as a Newsweek researcher and later a Detroit Free Press reporter before joining the Globe as a feature writer in 1967. The Globe let her write a few opinion pieces and in 1972 made her a regular columnist, first in the Living section and then on the editorial page. Says Anne Wyman, the Globe's editorial-page editor: "At the beginning, I thought she was rather shrill. She's become much more thoughtful, much more serious, also much more compassionate." Goodman is not a columnist who strives for Delphic detachment...
...like honor, integrity, and courage don't own a place in Davis's lexicon of human motivation. She coins the term "mediapolitics"--which, we're told, signifies "the inseparable relationship between the media and the government"--and then assumes that such a relationship will turn cozy and manipulative, the press serving as lackey to the caprices of politicians. When the Red Threat loomed large in the '50s, the press (as Davis shows) did undoubtedly slant its news--not because it wished to gratify those in power, but in a misguided attempt to serve the national interest. Yet a press that...