Obituary
98. Walter Cronkite
Jul 23rd 2009 From The Economist print edition

Walter Cronkite, newsman, died on July 17th, aged 92

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THE best hours of Walter Cronkite's life were not spent in a newsroom, or in pursuit of a story. They came after vigorous days of sailing his yawl Wyntje off the coast of Georgia or Maine. There was nothing more satisfying then, he wrote,
than dropping anchor in an otherwise deserted cove just before sunset, of pouring that evening libation and, with a freshly roasted bowl of popcorn, lying back as the geese and ducks and loons make your acquaintance and the darkness slowly descends to complement the silence.
An anchor, by the dictionary definition, was "a thing affording stability a source of confidence". In its narrower sense of a man on television, holding a firm line through chaotic events, it was coined for Mr Cronkite in 1952, when he covered the Democratic and Republican conventions for CBS. That he went on to play the role of anchor for the whole of America, holding the craft steady through the gales of Vietnam, Watergate and the Kennedy and King assassinations with his reading of the CBS Evening News, was a source of both pride and surprise to him.

A. 어휘
pursuit 追跡(추적), 추구. vigorous 기운찬, 정력적인, 활기찬.
yawl 쌍 돛대의 보트. anchor 닻. deserted 사람이 살지 않는, 황량한, 버림받은.
cove 작은 灣(만), 후미진 곳. libation 獻酒(헌주), 祭酒(제주), 음주.
freshly roasted 방금 구운. geese 기러기. loons 되강오리.
make your acquaintance 친구가 되다, 사귀게 되다. descend 하강하다.
complement 보충하다. dictionary definition 辭典的(사전적) 定義(정의).
afford 가져오다, 수여하다, 산출하다. confidence 신뢰, 확신, 自信(자신).
chaotic 혼돈의. coin 말을 새로 만들어 내다, 鑄造(주조)하다.
cover 보도하다, 취재하다. convention 회의. craft 배, 선박, 항공기.
gale 强風(강풍). assassination 암살. reading 낭독, 해석, 판단.

B. 구문
- That he went on to play . . . a source of both pride and surprise to him.
cf. That he went . . . .CBS Evening News→주어로 쓰인 명사절.
[Vietnam 전쟁, Watergate 사건, 그리고 Kennedy 대통령과 King목사의 암살이라는 폭풍 속을 미국이라는 배를 안전하게 운항하면서 미국 전체를 위한 앵커의 역할을 하였다는 것은 그에게는 긍지와 놀라움의 원천이 되었다.]

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He liked to say he was a newsman. He aspired to be nothing else. But as America's stabiliser from 1962 to 1981, he was imbued with a different character. He was always a Midwesterner, from the deep middle, though he had spent his formative years in Texas rather than Missouri, where he was born. His voice was described as bass and stately, though it was often light and fast, gaining authority from the clipped fall of the sentences rather than the timbre. Viewers thought of "Uncle Walter", with his greying sideburns and sad, pale eyes, as calmness itself. But when John Kennedy was killed, in a flurry of rumours and alarms over his newsdesk, he constantly removed his horn-rimmed glasses, put them on again, and swallowed hard. When astronauts landed on the moon he gasped, mopped his brow and was speechless. Americans listening to himhusbands finishing the meatloaf, wives stacking the dishes, children already in pyjamassometimes described him as the voice of God. God created the world in half an hour (17 minutes with commercial breaks) and then, at 7pm, rested: "And that's the way it is on Friday, July 20th. For CBS News, I'm Walter Cronkite."

The objective centre
His career was founded firmly on reverence for facts, the natural bent of an old wire reporter who had done his footwork at the Battle of the Bulge and the Normandy landings. The rise and rise of "infotainment" on television distressed him. Features were fine in their place, but a news bulletin should contain at least a dozen bits of hard news that made sense of his complicated country and, if possible, the world.

A. 어휘
aspire 갈망하다. stabiliser 안정시키는 사람, 안정기, 안정제,
imbue 물들이다, 鼓吹(고취)하다. Midwesterner 미국 중서부의 사람.
the deep middle 미국 중부 내륙지방. formative years 成長期(성장기).
bass 低音(저음)의. stately 당당한. authority 권위. clip 자르다, 깎아 다듬다.
timbre 음질, 음색. viewer 시청자. greying 백발이 되어가고 있는.
sideburns 짧은 구레나룻. a flurry of 疾風(질풍)같은.
horn-rimmed glasses 뿔테 안경. swallow 감정을 억누르다, 꿀꺽 삼키다.
astronaut 우주비행사. gasp 헐떡거리다, 숨막히다. mop 눈물/땀을 닦다.
meatloaf 다진 고기를 구운 덩어리. stack 쌓아 올리다.
commercial breaks 광고 방송을 위한 휴식. objective 객관적인.
found 기초를 두다, 설립하다. firmly 확고하게. reverence 존경, 숭배, 恭敬(공경).
bent 성향, 경향. wire reporter 통신사 기자. footwork 현장취재.
Normandy landings 노르망디 상륙작전(2차 세계대전).
infotainment󰡓정보(information)와 오락(entertainment)의 합성어. 오락성을 가미한 정보전달.
distress 슬프게 하다, 괴롭히다. features 특집방송(보도).
bulletin 速報(속보), 告示(고시), 公告(공고). make sense of ...의 뜻을 이해하다.
complicated 복잡한.

B. 구문
- gaining authority from the clipped fall. . . than the timbre.
cf. gain→as it gained
[그의 목소리는 음색보다는 문장의 세련된 끝맺음으로부터 권위를 얻었다.)
- God created the world in half an hour
[Cronkite는 반시간 안에 세계를 창조하였다.]