Word: column
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already roiled the academic waters by warning potential contributors that medical research should be made compatible with good, clear writing. The graceful, straightforward style of Thomas' speech struck the editor as just what he had in mind, and he offered Thomas the chance to write a monthly column for the journal. There were two conditions: the columns could run no longer than one page (about 1,200 words), and they had to be submitted in time to meet deadlines. If these strictures were met, the editor offered a bonus: Thomas' pieces would be printed, with no changes...
...gentry" birth leads him to "preside over Harvard's sporting aristocracy with the gentlemanly reserve of his forbearers" from the same pages that but a few months ago chimed "Harvard Divest" and "Liberation to the Oppressed". That such admiration for a "tradition of quiet genteel success" and "a full column of Gardiners, all boasting home addresses such as Brookline and Greenwich and assorted American Embassies" was printed by a newspaper which professes to frown upon arbitrary power structures and their manifestations in South Africa and Playboy centerfolds is most surprising...
Innocent civilians have not been the only victims. At Busia, a village that straddles Uganda's border with Kenya, 500 Simba troops were preparing for what their commander, one of Amin's nephews, called a "noble, bloody" last stand against an advancing column of Tanzanians. The screams of Simbas who were being garroted by their comrades for counseling surrender or trying to escape across the border could clearly be heard by passers-by on the town's unpaved main street...
Later on the ex-wife publishes a book called Marriage, Divorce and Selfhood in which she unforgivingly exposes his every flaw. Appalled, he protests. But true to the spirit of her times, she regards confession not as an extension of the gossip column but as a value to be treasured more deeply than tact or taste. "Nothing I wrote was untrue," she snaps, when he accuses her of humiliating him deliberately. She closes the discussion by citing her work's endorsement by contemporary society's highest authority: "I think I'd better warn you that I've had interest...
...completing a sequel at the rate of one chapter a day. Wills has also found time to write a suspense novel, At Button's, conduct a weekly seminar for Johns Hopkins students at his home in Baltimore and meet three deadlines a week for his syndicated newspaper column "Outrider...