Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competition for the first time in his 14-year reign as coach. Knight began to unravel. He benched his starters, dismissed his leading rebounder and, in a nationally televised game, he flung a chair across the court to protest the officiating. John Feinstein, a canny Washington Post columnist, focuses on the following season, when Knight veered even closer to the edge. Feinstein has no quarrel with the coach's leadership qualities, but they were far outweighed by his aggressions. Throughout the season Knight reviles the Hoosiers, throws them out of practice sessions for being imperfect, then orders them back...
...distance to the White House from the Hub was even greater. Biographer Goodwin navigates it swiftly. Like other historians, she finds the elder Kennedy's fingerprints all over the political controls. "It was like being drafted," J.F.K. later told Columnist Bob Considine. "My father wanted his eldest son in politics. 'Wanted' isn't the right word. He demanded it." He also molded the Kennedy image by promoting J.F.K.'s essentially ghostwritten Profiles in Courage and having his friend New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock lobby the Pulitzer board of advisers. The book won a Pulitzer Prize...
...still a gamble to launch a new columnist on the nation's editorial pages. That is true even when the new man, A.M. Rosenthal, has just stepped down from editing the New York Times. Forget the power he once wielded; his words must now compete from scratch with other columnists' across the country...
...this he reflects an attitude increasingly common in newspaper columning, an ambition to personalize the news rather than to report and reflect on it. This requires a strong ego, the kind Rosenthal developed with his power as an editor. Ego seems to have come almost from birth to two columnists conspicuous for it, William F. Buckley and George F. Will. Buckley is the beneficiary of an oil-rich upbringing and a thorough grounding in Roman Catholic thought. Will's father was a college professor, and George was presumably encouraged to air his youthful opinions at the dinner table. After...
...television, newspaper columnists seem diminished stars among the power groupies in Washington. Will regards himself primarily as a writer, but it is his TV appearances that put him in the big money. Moreover, a columnist is expected to be pigeonholed politically. The Gannett chain advises its 92 daily papers to pick columnists whose views range a broad spectrum -- from Mary McGrory's spirited liberalism, say, to James J. Kilpatrick's avuncular conservatism. But positioning isn't always enough: even in the age of Reagan, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Norman Podhoretz have not built significant reputations...