Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times editorial about this man appeared under the headline, "Why Not the Best?" and Times columnist Tom Wicker calls him the "Idea man from Illinois." Of late, he has not been so much covered as celebrated by the press. Phrases like "golden-tongued orator," and "impeccable liberal credentials" have been pinned to him like Olympic medals. The Massachusetts branch of Americans for Democratic Action last month welcomed him like one of their...
...saturation coverage undoubtedly contributed to the remarkable voter turnout. "We spent so much time and effort on it that they felt they had to go to the caucuses just to shut us up," jests Jack Germond, a political columnist for the Washington Star. In addition, the benefits to local boosterism were manifest. "You've got people who think Iowa is next to Idaho or Ohio," said the Republicans' Roberts. "This helps put us on the map." Or, as CBS Correspondent Bruce Morton put it: "There is no question that in Iowa, column inches and air play are more...
...follow. The forecasters generally sensed that the world would get by without general war, that the U.S. and Soviet Union would manage greater mutual restraint. A number of observers guessed that American society would move into a hard-to-define period of reflection, a time for "sorting out," as Columnist Joseph Kraft called it. Economists, in any thorough analysis, were not flatly wrong in projecting continued prosperity; there has been that in spite of the discombobulations of recession and soaring prices. But the cumulative forecasts of politicians, sociologists, philosophers, scientists and journalists, including some of those that found their...