Word: approach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member can carry the rest of the commission along with him. Retired from the presidency of Johns Hopkins University, Chairman Milton Eisenhower of the Violence Commission had ample time and energy to devote to the report; he thus managed to persuade both liberals and conservatives to accept his moderate approach. No doubt he was aided by the fact that some of his fellow commissioners were preoccupied. Eric Hoffer occasionally dozed during meetings, Congressman Hale Boggs rarely showed up, and Senator Roman Hruska diluted his authority by sending a legislative assistant to sessions...
...audience Johnny Carson attracts. ABC has put a new witty and charming host in the time slot opposite Carson. At first glance, the new Dick Cavett show seems to be just another Tonight Show imitation-like the Jocy Bishop show it replaced. But Dick Cavett's approach is somewhat different from Carson's. Unlike the often-famous Carson, Cavett encourages serious conversation on his show-Vietnam has been a key topic on several nights-and this alone may indicate that his show is not going to be another slick late-night confection...
...approach can be irritating when-after Phillips comments that his book has nothing to do with new Republican programs but is only concerned with facts-Cavett does not point out that, being in the Nixon administration, Phillips might be interested in making use of these facts to create an emerging Republican majority...
...fact only a few, philosophically advanced journals, like Problemi and Praxis, operate outside the system. This may not be because these writers are so alienated, but because they feel themselves above the activist approach. I spent some time with the bearded director of Problemi in his modest Ljubljana office. He described himself as a "political nihilist, not interested, and not searching for feasible solutions." He admitted that most journals of this sort are too intellectual to have a broad-based appeal...
Sniffs, Chuckles. Reaction to the Murdoch mixture on Fleet Street, where the news a paper makes is sometimes more important than the news it prints, has ranged from raised eyebrows to winks. The conservative Sunday Telegraph sniffed at his stoop-to-conquer approach: "Be warned, Mr. Murdoch. The British are not all sheep, fit only for an Australian abattoir." A writer in the conservative Spectator chuckled: "All newspapers now are in for a lively time. The chips are down. You might even say the clothes are off too." The 4,925,000-circulation Daily Mirror sneered editorially...