The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.

A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.

Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of the city magazines that covered the city and gave all kinds of advice and all that sort of stuff. And there were copies all over the country by the time he left. He had, however, a view of journalism that was very much, I must say, like Tina Brown's at The New Yorker. You hit 'em hard, fast, give 'em something to talk about the day after the paper comes out, as contrasted with William Shawn, who gave them something to talk about two or three years from then.

[A.J. Muste] was - he - I don't know what he finally came out believing in, but it was some kind of higher being.