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...standards for Texas books. Says Michael Hudson, a native Texan in charge of PFAW's office in Austin: "Next week I hit the roads across Texas. I'm going to try to increase the level of interest in the process. My role will be that of a catalyst to open things...
Turner has vaulted past those pursuits to what he calls, with characteristic bombast, "the most significant achievement in the annals of journalism." Although considerably less than that, his Cable News Network (CNN) is nevertheless a catalyst for a burgeoning revolution in television. Turner has shown that there is a substantial and eager audience for news all the time, not just in the confined hours at the beginning and end of the workday. In two years his 24-hour-a-day service has grown to be sent into 13.9 million households via cable TV. According to the A.C. Nielsen TV ratings...
DIED. Neil Bogart, 39, maverick entertainment mogul whose "ear for the street" made him a millionaire catalyst of the disco-music craze; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Bogart at 27 first corralled the teeny-bopper record market with "bubblegum" music like the indigestible Yummy Yummy Yummy ("I've got love in my tummy"). With his sure instinct for slick commercialization, he was a key shaper of the success of such pop singers and groups as Donna Summer, Mac Davis, the Village People and Kiss. An occasional co-producer of expertly hyped movies as well (Midnight Express, The Deep), Bogart...
...also a spectacular critical and commercial success when it appeared in 1970, largely because of where it appeared. But other instant bestsellers born in the stately columns of The New Yorker have survived as masterpieces of modern journalism, such as Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring, a catalyst for the environmental movement, and John Hersey's Hiroshima. While Schell's book does not live up to Shawn's reverent assessment, and while it falters in its attempt to grapple with some aspects of the awful subject it addresses, The Fate of the Earth is a grim...
...paper, the organization envisioned by the Gomes Committee was indeed enticing. Modeled on Phillips Brooks House, the Foundation was described as a "considerably more than a faculty committee or an extra-curricular organization." It was to be a catalyst for research and discussion of racial issues, a sponsor of Third World cultural activities, and an educational institution working for "the general improvement of racial understanding in Harvard College." At the same time it would avoid the tensions and pitfalls of "separatism." Perhaps best of all, it would be unique to Harvard and could be molded to fit the school...