Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PLAN TO BE SCUTTLED AS SMALL STATES BALK. Madison recalled seeing George Washington in deep conversation with two reporters at Robert Morris' party last night. Was Garrulous George the "influential Virginian" who was "privately pressing for compromise"? Madison turned to the editorial page. There George Shrill, his favorite neoroyalist columnist, was quoting Thucydides in the original Greek to argue that the 13 states needed the firm hand of a minor German princeling as monarch to quell "the unseemly clamor of mobocracy." A gossip item on the entertainment page provided Madison with his only chuckle of the morning: a Harrisburg film...
Some journalists also found the letter troubling. "I may not be able to define perfectly the 'invasion of privacy' in presidential politics," wrote Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman, "but I know it when I see it. This is it." In the Times's defense, Whitney argues that reporting is "one big fishing expedition. That doesn't mean we print everything we find...
MARRIED. A.M. Rosenthal, 65, columnist and former executive editor of the New York Times; and Shirley Lord, 53, novelist (One of My Very Best Friends) and a senior editor of Vogue; he for the second time, she for the fourth; in New York City...
Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr. at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn.: I think we need a democratic Anti-Defamation League, and I urge you to found such an institute. ((It)) would monitor and hand down grades to men and women responsible for political utterances -- whether delivered over radio, television, orally before a live audience, or written in books or billboards. I would like to see your democratic Anti-Defamation League defend the honor of democracy by attacking those who abuse that venerable convention of self- government by public travesties of even semi-orderly thought. How fine...
...inside scoop by becoming one of the 12,000 applicants. "I was looking for an angle," he recalls. Zaslow not only got the story, he got the job. Beginning July 1, the paper will feature not one but two successors to the nation's best-known advice columnist, who will continue to write her own column at the rival Chicago Tribune. The other lucky selectee is Diane Crowley, 47, a divorced lawyer with two children, whose late mother Ruth was "the original creator of the Ann Landers column," according to Sun-Times Publisher Robert Page. Crowley's law practice...