Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows just how the myth got started, but it has persisted for 30 years. Any sports figure who gets on the cover of TIME, goes the mythology, is doomed to defeat-in a phrase, has had it. TIME Subscriber Ara Parseghian saw that jinx note in the sports column while Correspondent Marsh Clark was interviewing him for this week's cover. He smiled rather bravely and allowed that he wasn't worried. How ever, while there is no computerized or even uncomputerized evidence to support the myth, it can be said that someone almost always loses in sports...
...column is concocted of bile and bilge. There is no barrier of good taste that he won't breach daily...
...such acrimony, TV Critic Jack O'Brian, 50, responds with the unruffled self-assurance of a man who has managed to outstay most of his manifold detractors. His column, On the Air, has appeared in Hearst's New York Journal-American for 14 uninterrupted years. "I don't blame the people who hate my guts," says O'Brian. "I do have a capacity to cut very close to the bone, and these people must react. They can't very well blame themselves. So they blame...
...Muscle. O'Brian's column ignores the conventions to which most TV critics subscribe. He seldom, if ever, indulges in lengthy think pieces; he finds he can contain his reaction to any given show or performer in brief, sharp, personal observations. And TV being TV, his prevailing attitude is aggressively hostile: he frowns on most of what he sees. Steve Allen, a TV performer who has repetitively borne the brunt of O'Brian's scorn, once assayed the critical content of a single column and counted 33 pans against only three bits of praise...
...Little David"), CBS News Commentator Mike Wallace ("a vacuum") and scores of other performers who fall short of the O'Brian standards. "I'm not a Hessian soldier," says O'Brian. "I can't write what I don't believe. The muscle in my column is opinion, and I can't write anyone else's opinion...