Word: careers
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Salinger was, of course, kidding about his countrymen. Reciprocally, the descendants of Tocqueville do entertain a continuing, if critical, interest in things American. Salinger has carved a new career as the American in Paris who provides Frenchmen with native insights into the inscrutable Yankee mind. As a grand reporter (roving editor) specializing in U.S. affairs for the French newsmagazine L 'Express, he has become the most prominent American apologist and explicator in Paris since CBS Commentator David Schoenbrun left in 1962. Salinger presides jovially over several music and film festivals in France. He is a regular commentator for Europe...
There was a time when William Randolph Hearst, at his megalomaniac whim, could order his papers from coast to coast to lambaste Franklin D. Roosevelt on the front page, build up the career of Hearst's mistress Marion Davies on the movie page, and fill the intervening space with scandal. The Hearst papers have long since moderated their ways. No other newspaper chain nowadays commits such abuses. Instead, the damning indictment of most chain papers is that they have become flat, boring and timorous...
...Comedy of Power-a scathing attack on French politicians. As for her former boss, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Giroud says, if "an atom bomb fell on France, he would be there to congratulate himself that there had not been two." Giroud's political career, she readily agrees, is now fini...
...puts him in good company. The first two winners: Jean Monnet, architect of Europe's Common Market, and former German Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Willy Brandt. As old friends Henry Kissinger, McGeorge Bundy and Robert Anderson, chairman of the institute, listened, McCloy insisted modestly that his career has been marked "more by its length than its height." He is in fact still busy, helping push the Panama Canal treaty through Congress. "It's been a fascinating life," he mused. Yet he has no plans to write an autobiography. Why? "If I could distill...
...urging of her psychiatrist, Sexton began to write verse. What started as therapy quickly became a craft, a vocation and a career. Her letters frequently refer to poetry as her life saver, but elsewhere she sees her work as appalling in its blunt candor. "Creative people must not avoid the pain that they get dealt," she writes an editor. "I say to myself, sometimes repeatedly 'I've got to get the hell out of this hurt' ... But no. Hurt must be examined like a plague...