Word: alsop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such meticulous work may seem gritty and unassuming, especially since it appears thrice weekly on the same Post page that features such stars as Joseph Alsop, Joseph Kraft, and Evans and Novak. Yet Raspberry's strength rests precisely in the quiet, offbeat nature of his interests. Years of street experience have made Raspberry, 38, an expert in three areas usually shunned by general columnists: education, criminal justice and drug abuse...
Among columnists, Old-Line Liberal Marquis Childs joined Conservatives James Kilpatrick and Joseph Alsop in the antipress chorus on the Kissinger incident. Alsop gloomed that the treatment of Kissinger?a product of the "enormous, Watergate-induced self-importance of the American press"?might further decrease the value of the dollar and put U.S. foreign policy "on the dung heap of disorder." Well, hardly. But the press?especially Washington newsmen?had indeed given the unfortunate impression of ganging up on the only hero in town...
...talks with Kissinger have been indispensable to reporters in an otherwise hostile Administration. Yet sometimes a Kissinger briefing edges closer to what is known in White House parlance as "stroking." During the Viet Nam War, for example, Kissinger would tell Hawkish Columnist Joseph Alsop that the North Vietnamese understood only force, and Eastern Liberal James Reston that he was straining to keep the Pentagon hawks at bay. Aboard his Air Force 707 on an early round of his Middle East peace shuttle, Kissinger would shuffle to the press cabin in the rear to tell the 14 reporters in his entourage...
...over her pretty little hands." On governmental censorship, he complained that the Administration was suffering from "Daddy-knowsbestism-telling us not to ask questions or Daddy spank." Or on Watergate, recalling his own service in the OSS and his close study of the techniques of other spy services, Alsop could write with coldly measured indignation: "Politicians have played tricks on each other since politics was invented. But this is not politics; this is war ... a genuinely terrifying innovation ... Any person proven to have used these techniques should not only be punished by the law; he should be banned forever from...
Shortly before his death, Alsop was visited by TIME'S Art White, who reported: "His wife Tish sat near him, jumping up now and then to check that the antibiotic was flowing properly into Stew's arm. We talked about his book. Why did he write it? 'For money mostly. But if you're told you're going to die in a year and a half at the most, you want to leave something of yourself behind.' We talked about his brother Joe, who had given him some 40 transfusions of platelets...