Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story was written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, whose distinctive TIME Essays have attracted something of a following among readers. Columnist William F. Buckley has described Morrow's style as a blend of "pyrotechnics and lyricism." Says Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited this week's story...
...trademark front-page features. "They're letting some writing get into the paper that doesn't sparkle," says Michael G. Gartner, a Journal Page One editor in the early 1970s and now president and editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. Still, Warren Brookes, economics columnist for the Boston Herald American, expresses the widespread judgment in the trade when he says: "It's the best-written and most intelligent newspaper in America today...
Aron's position in Paris-a pro-Western, tradition-minded professor at the Sorbonne and former columnist for the conservative Le Figaro-is significant. This changed view of the U.S. is not the crude anti-Americanism of the postwar years, when walls were defaced with scrawled outcries of YANKEE GO HOME! and leftist crowds repeatedly rioted against the all-powerful U.S. It is instead the increasingly widespread belief, even among many of America's traditional friends, that U.S. strength has declined so much that Washington can no longer be relied upon as the leader of the Western alliance...
...receive any formal academic training in his craft. He graduated from Moscow's college-level Institute of International Relations, and began his career at Trud, the daily newspaper of the Central Council of Trade Unions. In eleven years there, he moved up from copy boy to columnist. After two years as a radio commentator in Moscow, Dunayev was sent to London for five years as a broadcast correspondent. He returned home in 1972 to assume his present position with Moscow television...
...front means more than politics though. Easyriders is honest about every controversial topic--sex, 130 mph motorized tricycles, farting and even death. A member of the staff, Ken Stambaugh, was killed in a motorcycle accident a few days before publication, and Easyriders' lead columnist, Spider, eulogized him in this fashion: "I didn't get to know the man--he'd just been with us a few weeks. He was working on his S.U. carb on the shoulder of the road near our firetrap the other night when a broad in a cage went off the road, smackin...