Word: function
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply because there are so many lawyers in government. These defenses are not very persuasive. Lawyers are numerous in government partly because they are supposed to know enough law to prevent scandals, not to organize them. Nor do lawyers shed their training and their professional responsibilities just because they function as officials taking orders. Whether they appear as advocates for the state or for their clients, lawyers are essentially officers of the court, with all the strictures and obligations that that position implies...
Anatomy of a News Story never directly responds to that anonymous delegate's injunction merely to cover, not create, news. There is no need to do so. The program simply and quietly accepts the fact that such neat divisions of function are no longer feasible. Hearteningly, it also implies that TV newsmen are acutely aware of the dangers this new situation presents and, even in the most heated moments, do their best to guard against them. Anatomy is neither self-critical nor self-congratulatory. It is, rather, what any good news story ought to be-a cool, objective, craftsman...
...past societies, theater allowed audiences to define themselves through the acts of classic tragedy. In this century, films have sometimes assumed that function. Today, television seems to be rising to the role. Despite the unemotional statements of the witnesses, Watergate televised is anguished ritual and moral tragedy. It has its longueurs, and not all the questions are brief, cogent or acute; some of the Senators are intent on using their allotted time beyond real need. Still, each day brings new revelations and confirms old suspicions; each day creates a community of numb bystanders who will not be free until...
...truncated operation composed of the remnants of the Nixon Administration." Under his proposal, "there would be no implied admission of personal guilt on the part of Mr. Nixon, but simply a recognition that misconduct by high officials of the Nixon Administration has fatally compromised its ability to function in the national interest...
...Paris and Peoria, in Frankfurt and Fresno, the question hovers: has the unfolding Watergate scandal so monopolized the attention of the Nixon Administration that it has ceased to function effectively? The doubts have been most urgent in the field of economics, and there the answer is at least faintly reassuring. The Administration does seem to have pulled itself together sufficiently to shape a new anti-inflation policy. In other areas, the answer is less heartening...