Word: author
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government, for its part, said that the assassination was an attack on the very heart of the revolution-and some blamed the Communists. Motahari was the author of several theological textbooks widely used in Iran, and like most Shi'ite leaders he shared Khomeini's views of Islam as a political religion. A day of mourning was proclaimed, and he was honored as a martyr. After a huge funeral procession in the holy city of Qum, where Motahari had taught at the Faizieh School, one of Iran's leading theological colleges, Khomeini mourned...
This last accomplishment has brought Thomas more attention than all the others put together. A collection of 29 of his essays was published in 1974 under the title The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher. No one expected much, least of all the author. For one thing, most Americans escape from the study of biology as fast as their teachers will let them; if they think of the subject at all, they are likely to remember rubbery dead frogs and the smell of formaldehyde. For another, Thomas made few concessions to the ignorance of laymen. He certainly...
Bitter words? Perhaps. But in the eyes of their author, they are tersely accurate. According to Michele Wallace, 27, a truculently articulate, handsome, Harlem-bred writer, the battle of the sexes in the black community verges on open warfare. Today's black women, she says, have in effect committed "social and intellectual suicide" under the domination of "unintrospective and oppressive" black...
...background for a discussion of censorship on television and the unique problems the medium faces. But he gets lost in a series of meetings that could give the Civil Service justifiable cause to claim the D.C. bureaucracy is "lean." The problem with See No Evil is the author's approach. Trying desperately to write what he calls a "dramatic narrative" of the events, Cowan lapses into description of events that no judge could fault for being incomplete. Awkwardly referring to his own role in the fight, Cowan's legalistic style makes the book read like The Daily Variety...
...profits. Cowan never talks about how much money his client stood to lose if his programs were switched from one time slot to another because Archie and Edith want to talk about "Mike's problem." Another one of Cowan's idols is Fred "programming genius" Silverman, whom the author says "is the best hope for those concerned about television." We're talking about the man who brought Charley's Angels, the Love Boat and Fantasy Island to television...