Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, the pattern in most cities has been to close predominantly black schools with many black personnel and bus the students to white schools. This suggests to students that black institutions and personnel are inferior to white ones and, as black columnist William Raspberry writes, "essays to black children that they are somehow improved by the presence of whites." This humiliating experience, Raspberry says, suggests to black children that there is something wrong with them that only whites can cure. The humiliation causes feelings of inferiority and has negative psychological effects...
...consistently supported, moderately dovish liberals like The New York Times or the self-styled presidential contender Morris Udall insisted that any attempt by President Ford to make the Vietnam war a political issue was unwise, immoral, and doomed to failure. More principled opponents of the war--Times columnist Anthony Lewis, for example--joined in insisting that the United States should concentrate not on attaching blame for past mistakes in Vietnam, but on administering future, non-political aid. In Congress, liberals spoke against military aid on humanitarian as well as pragmatic grounds--but their speeches were printed only in the Congressional...
Foreign Gifts. Columnist Jack Anderson pried loose the State Department's and Pentagon's cables relating to the foreign travel of 250 members of Congress in 1973 and 1974, which led to his writing nine columns on freeloading and high living by legislators. He revealed, for example, that the State Department had shipped home carpeting that the wife of New Mexico Senator Joseph Montoya had bought in Hong Kong. The Washington Post got the State Department to open up files on official foreign gifts to former President Nixon and his family. The Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoman obtained...
...other. Atomic weapons devastate both countries, but the massive Chinese army advances despite horrendous losses. Drury describes the Chinese variously as "yellow hordes," "pagan hordes" and "mongrel hordes." Besides Knox, other holdover Drury characters taking a last bow include Secretary of State Robert Lessingwell, Commie-Symp Fred Van Ackerman, Columnist Walter Dobius and TV Commentator Frankly Unctuous...
Knowing whom he is up against, Tuerkheimer has been readying himself for battle six, even seven, days a week. Williams, too, is cramming. Says his close friend, Columnist Art Buchwald: "He has gone into training for the past eight weeks. He's surly, he won't drink, he won't go to parties. He's miserable...