Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assistant vice president of Continental Airlines. Greenfield was promised a "major job," and in due course Managing Editor Daniel and Assistant Managing Editor Rosenthal, backed by Publisher Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, decided to send Greenfield to Washington to replace Wicker (who would have kept his column). The bureau again objected, but after six weeks of inconclusive discussions, New York decided to go ahead with the move anyway. The result was genteel mutiny...
...council majority was also distressed that David Feintuch, editor of the GSA Bulletin, had transformed it from a monthly notice column into a bi-weekly newspaper, containing features and editorials. When the paper criticized President Pusey's annual report, the council balked. It denied a previously promised seat to the editorial's author, Michael Schwartz. At the same meeting conservative council members spread reports that Dean Elder had called for Feintuch's removal -- reports which Elder has since vigorously denied. Under pressure from the conservatives, the council voted to forbid the Bulletin editor from making statements to the press...
After four widely acclaimed books, a vivid CBS-TV interview and a celebrated meeting with President Johnson, Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer, 65, has become a hot literary property. So the Manhattan-based Ledger Syndicate asked him to do a newspaper column. His first response to Ledger President John W. Higgins was a resounding no, but he finally relented. An impressive 214 newspapers have now signed up for his weekly column called "Reflections...
...date. Like his books, they deal with what book reviewers call "the human condition" and therefore are not required to be topical. While most columnists are content to get a few facts straight, Hoffer likes to sum up whole civilizations with epigrammatic flourish. In this week's column, he chides U.S. intellectuals. They are "likely to consider any achievement not fathered by words as illegitimate," he writes. "Hence their disdain of things which have come to pass by chance. To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous...
...deans to straighten all this out. "Bringing students of this persuasion back to reality presents a new kind of challenge to education, to faculty certainly, but especially and with painful immediacy, perhaps to deans." With all due respect, the prospect of marching bravely to the new world, in a column headed by Messrs. Ford, Glimp and Watson, is not overly appetizing to most Harvard students. One suspects that the Deans, too, would find it unappealing...