"Explains, Expounds, Clarifies"

"Newsweek was a relief for some readers after the overpowerful, mostly conservative Time. A few readers (and a few editors) liked to throw Time dramatically in the trash, so infuriated were they when Luce published his own, idiosyncratic conservatism. Newsweek became the magazine for liberals. But more important, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, it was also the magazine for good writing, especially for those who were put off by the strange Timese language that Luce and Brit Hadden had created. Martyn and his successors turned the magazine into the anti-Time. Years later it still was. In 1970, Richard Smith remembered calling his editors 'the noble guerrilla band, fighting the "panzer division on Sixth Avenue."  We took pride in our speed and flexibility and occasional irreverence.'"

Alan Brinkley at The New Republic eulogizes Newsweek.