Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other black newsmen meet. His beat is largely confined to a cluttered, windowless office just off the Washington Post's news room and a vast network of telephone sources. Were it not for a slight resemblance to Comedian Flip Wilson and a penchant for wearing red plaid trousers, Columnist William Raspberry could do his work unnoticed, until another of his provocative articles appears...
...movie palace will open as the Austin Ritz, a 700-seat theater devoted to country rock. The city now has 65 resident bands; they all work regularly, since Austin's 28 clubs and bars often hire as many as three bands a weekend. Says Townsend Miller, country-music columnist of the Austin American-Statesman: "Austin is country gone berserk." The music is country picking and basic bluegrass, leavened with rock and lightly glazed with acid...
...indications last week that Rockefeller might head the Domestic Council, an advisory board of Cabinet officers and other Government officials that makes policy recommendations to the President. This would be a logical starting role for a man who served 15 years as Governor of New York. As Washington Post Columnist George Will put it last week in a somewhat backhanded compliment, Rockefeller's governorship was "a protracted seminar on the ability of problems to resist solutions, and the ability of solutions to aggravate problems ... The knowledge of what doesn't work is invaluable in Government, and Rockefeller...
...columnist for The New York Times recently observed that New Yorkers are the only people in the world who cheer when you tell them of the city's horrors. People live in New York even though they know it is crimeridden, overcrowded and over-rated; having to struggle with New York is the sadistic pleasure that lures people to the city...
...Washington newsmen got acquainted with Jerry terHorst in his new job, and speculated about the treatment the press can expect from President Ford, one voice reversed the question: How should the press treat Ford? Veteran Washington Post Columnist David S. Broder had some pointed advice for his colleagues. "We can play a helpful part in bringing the presidency back to human scale," he wrote, "if we back off just enough to let Jerry Ford have room to be himself." Broder then offered three self-restraining reforms...