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With facts came objectivity, his fundamental creed. He hoped he could be described as a liberal in the true sense, non-dogmatic and non-committed. He was "not a registered anything". Many viewers doubted it, claiming "Pinko Cronkite" helped to push the country to the left and lose the war in Vietnam. It was true that in the spring of 1968 he declaredin tones apocalyptic rather than calmthat the summer would bring only stalemate in the war, escalation meeting new escalation, until the world approached "cosmic disaster". He had had his private doubts about the build-up of troops for three years. But almost at once, he regretted that his public words put him "on a side".
Anchoring him, too, was his belief in the freedom of the press and the right of the people to know. In the last years of the Nixon presidency he found himself fighting against wiretapping and the bullying of journalists, "a cold draught" through the door, but pulled on his mittens and got on with the job. His faith was placed solidly in the constitution, and in law and order. He was never so angry on-air as when Dan Rather, his successor on the CBS Evening News, was punched by security men during the wild Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968. The scene made him want to pack up his microphone and leave. Yet he did not support the demonstrators either, who were drawn to the TV cameras like moths to a flame. The way to change the country was by civilised dialogue and he would mediate it, from the objective middle, if Americans wished him to.

A. 어휘
objectivity 객관성. fundamental 기본적인, 중요한. creed 신조.
liberal 자유(진보)주의자. dogmatic 독단적인, 敎條的(교조적)인.
non-committed 열성적으로 활동하지 않는.
a registered anything 공식적으로 등록한 사람. tone 語調(어조).
apocalyptic 啓示的(계시적)인, 天啓(천계)의. stalemate 난국, 停頓(정돈)상태.
cosmic 우주적인, 廣大無邊(광대무변)한. disaster 재앙. build-up 增强(증강), 축적.
Anchoring him 그를 단단히 붙잡아매고 있는 것은. anchor 닻으로 고정시키다.
press 언론. wiretapping 盜聽(도청). bullying 약한 자를 못살게 구는 것.
a cold draught 차가운 通風(통풍). mitten 벙어리 장갑. get on 계속하다.
solidly 確固(확고)하게. constitution 헌법. on-air 방송 중.
convention 회의. moth 불나방. flame 화염. civilised 예의 바른, 문명 된.
mediate 중재하여 달성하다, 조정하다. objective middle 객관적인 중간.

98-4-465
Yet he was bothered by that. He regretted that Americans were so dependent on television, and on him, to explain the world. TV couldn't do it. All the words uttered in his evening newscast would not fill even the front page of the New York Times. He offered, in the end, just a headline service. Print alone gave the necessary depth of understanding.
His Walter Mitty dream, as he said once, was to take his boat and leave "the daily flow of this miserable world". He would stop attempting to make brisk order out of human affairs. Instead, he once told Sailing magazine, he might weigh anchor from the marshlands of South Carolina:

you start a little before dawn. The first light. I like to do that anyway. The sawgrass rises to meet the day, standing straight up, the blades of sawgrass with dew on them sparkle. All through the marsh grass, the birds are rising …and a little fog rises, the morning fog, the haze, as the dew boils away. And through all of that the fishing boats…meandering through the marsh grass, captain of the sea.

A. 어휘
bother 괴롭히다, 귀찮게 하다. utter 말하다, 발음하다.
print 신문, 잡지, 서적 등 인쇄물. brisk 날카로운, 활기찬.
Sailing magazine 요트항해 잡지. weigh anchor 닻을 가라앉히다, 碇泊(정박)하다.
marshland 濕地(습지). dawn 새벽. sawgrass 억새의 한 종류.
blade 잎사귀, 칼날. dew 이슬. sparkle 번쩍이다. marsh 濕地(습지).
haze 안개, 아지랑이. boils away 물이 끓어서 없어지다.
meander 굴곡을 따라서 가다.

B. 구문
- He would stop attempting to make brisk order out of human affairs.
[그는 인간의 일에 칼날 같이 날카로운 질서를 세우려는 시도를 중지하려고 하였다.]