Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promoters. Elliott has chosen to keep Bremen as his point of reference. He is exceptional in having proudly remained what many undergraduates disdain as "typical," or worse, "middle American." While his classmates fretted over professional school applications. Elliott quietly engineered legislative campaigns back home and penned a fiery political column that ran in the weekly Bremen Enquirer. Along the way, he set aside plans for law school to explore a new interest in American educational philosophy. He will begin teaching this fall at a small private school 40 miles from Bremen...
...floridly written political column entitled "Verities and Balderdash," he exhorted The Bremen Enquirer's readers to choose right over wrong, and, for that matter, Right over Left. Of Ronald Reagan, Elliott wrote in Spring 1981: "The President is a prophet of renewal in a nation that is losing its self-confidence...He is a prayerful man, and I think that he realizes that, while it's important, our renewal as a nation does not depend upon the state of our economy or the size of our purses, but instead it depends upon our inner selves, and upon our inner sense...
...already tense confrontation over school policy heated up, the paper's editorship passed from a Republican to a Democrat, who happened to have two relatives in the teachers' union. Small town politics set in. One week a disclaimer began appearing over Elliott's byline: "The opinions expressed in this column are not those of the editor." Gradually, the space allotted for "Verities and Balderdash" shrank, until finally, the editor cut it to 10 column inches. "That same week there was a 25-inch article on how to choose a toothbrush," he recalls, shaking his head in amusement. "I decided, 'Okay...
...WERE IN New York exactly one week ago, you might have noticed a profoundly depressing item on the front page of The New York Times. More likely, you did not. The neighbor's dog may have spirited away the morning paper, and the single column article did not even make the out of town editions...
...threat of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast; FBI and Navy intelligence reports, and a special investigatory report ordered by the President, fully documented the fact that the Japanese-American population was no threat; there was a complete absence of factual support for the claims of "fifth column" activity, sabotage, and signalling to Japanese ships. Instead, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had told President Roosevelt that "the necessity for mass evacuation is based primarily upon public and political pressure rather than on factual data." McCloy had no excuses because his were informed decisions. The facts were there, just...