Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lapses in taste, morals and common sense, it has one of the few genuine eccentrics left in daily journalism. Music Critic Michael Steinberg's running quarrel with Erich Leinsdorf s direction of the Boston Symphony was a major factor in the maestro's departure in 1969. Sport Columnist Bud Collins is easily the best tennis reporter in the country...
...harder zeal. In one important respect the Post is clearly superior to the New York Times: its nine editorial writers, led by Editor Philip L. Geyelin and Deputy Meg Greenfield, produce wise, reasoned, dispassionate commentary. The paper's political staff, under Pulitzer- prizewinning Columnist David Broder, is perhaps the most knowledgeable in the country...
...visitor needed only to mention a scrap of news from Moscow or a question from Russian history, wrote his friend Columnist Joseph Alsop last week, "and instantly, as though by magic, he would be his old shrewd and endlessly knowledgeable self again...
Died. Arthur John Daley, 69, long-tune sports columnist for the New York Times; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Daley joined the Times sports staff in 1926 as a general reporter. A lanky, insatiable baseball fan with an easy, humorous style, Daley in 1956 became the second sportswriter ever to win a Pulitzer Prize...
...itself back together." Sexual Intimacy (Thomas More Press) is a priest's enthusiastic endorsement of inventive marital sex play. A chapter on "How to Be Sexy" envisages a wife surprising her husband "in the library . . . wearing only panties and a martini pitcher." One right-wing Catholic columnist declared that even discussing the book would be an occasion of sin. (Greeley promptly started a sequel.) The New Agenda (Doubleday) may be Greeley's best theological work to date. It is a thoughtful pastoral prescription for a changing church, which, however, insists that basic Christian concepts-the Resurrection, a Saviour...