Word: buchwald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper that isn't tied to inherited ideas of what an event is"; it is attracting a number of good new journalists, both men and women. Von Hoffman himself specially requested that his own freewheeling column run in the "Style" section of the Post, as did Humorist Art Buchwald. Said Von Hoffman: "People read the women's page far oftener than the editorial page, where our big hitters hold forth...
Back in Washington Columnist Art Buchwald seemed happy enough to be left behind. Comfortably reflecting on the fact that Chairman Mao writes uplifting verse, Buchwald offered a collection of poems that President Nixon might quote back at him, in Mao's own florid style. To the harried word reporters in Peking, one was especially to the point...
...Buchwald forecast a great economic year for 1972: "Life won't be as bad as it was in the late '60s when things were booming, but I predict that it will be a good enough year that people will be able to feel how miserable a healthy economy...
Columnist Art Buchwald hit upon his formulation after noticing that most economic indicators are pointing up. "More people are starting to travel on the airlines, which is a very good thing." he wrote last week. "But if things keep getting better, the airports won't be able to handle the traffic, the planes will be overbooked, luggage will be lost and the airlines will have a very good economic year...
...price of a strong economy, Buchwald theorized, is a breakdown in the services that the economy provides. "The more refrigerators people buy, the less chance they have of getting them repaired. The more cars that are sold, the bigger pollution and traffic problems you have...