Word: columnist
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...surprising source. William Safire has largely made his reputation through epigrammatic feistiness and hit-and-run repartee. As a speechwriter in the Nixon White House, he gave Spiro Agnew the epithets and alliterations ("nattering nabobs of negativism") to attack liberal opponents of Administration policies. In 1973 he became a columnist for the New York Times, just as Watergate began to drag his conservative cause and many former colleagues into disrepute. Safire not only survived that debacle but prevailed: he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978, and his twice-a-week columns continue to display reportorial zeal and refreshing unpredictability...
Wattleton, along with syndicated Columnist Ellen Goodman and legions of other modern women, also objects to Wattenberg's tendency, as Goodman puts it, "to slip easily back into a traditional vernacular -- woman as exclusive child raiser." Schearer links this objection to the fundamental criticism of Wattenberg's espousal of Government birth incentives for the sake of international dominance. "There is something distasteful," he says, "about the concept that we should subvert personal aspirations in the democracy of America to the cause of maintaining our world-power status in the 21st century...
...first joined the New York Times in 1939, and has stayed with the paper ever since. As Washington bureau chief and columnist in the 1950s, he pioneered a thoughtful style of reporting that established him as one of the most distinguished journalists of his era. Last week James ("Scotty") Reston filed the last of the regular columns he has written since 1953. "I concluded a little while ago that a man can stick in the trench too long," he wrote...
Britain' s attempts to suppress a former spy' s memoirs cause a a sensation. -- New York Times Columnist James Reston steps down...
DIED. Jim Bishop, 79, terse newspaper columnist and melodramatic you-are-there pop historian (The Day Lincoln Was Shot); in Delray Beach, Fla. Bishop also pounded out The Day Christ Was Born and The Day Kennedy Was Shot, plus 18 other books, and wrote a thrice-weekly column from 1956 until...