Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overthrow the Republic. There are rhythms in these matters. Nineteen years ago, the New York Review of Books published on its cover a diagram, with instructions, of how to make a Molotov cocktail--to be hurled, obviously, in the direction of the ruling class. Thirty-one years ago, the columnist Murray Kempton wrote, "It is already very hard to remember that, only a generation ago, there were a number of Americans of significant character and talent, who believed that our society was not merely doomed but undeserving of survival, and to whom every one of its institutions seemed not just...
...York Times columnist Tom Wicker said that the press has not been aggressive enough in attacking Reagan's record because they are "intimidated" by his success...
When Robert Healy, a 30-year political correspondent and now columnist for The Boston Globe, was covering the 1960 Presidential primaries, Lyndon B. Johnson pulled him aside. "You don't think that skinny little guy will be president, do you?" he said, pointing to John F. Kennedy...
...innermost thoughts in these diaries--which now fill four fat black notebooks--wringing out his feelings, probing his often masked motives. In public, Cuomo's belligerent words often land like karate chops. In the diaries, he is far less defiant. Hence, a recent entry agreed with a newspaper columnist's criticism. "His reference to my legalisms and pedantry," wrote Cuomo, "is an accurate one." Another entry tried to analyze the change of his mood: "I felt an unhappiness again the last few days, not a depression but a sense of emptiness. It usually comes after the euphoria. It's wearying...
...year-olds stated that "raising children is a main satisfaction in my life." Revering and caring for children has served as an antidote to some of the egocentric tendencies of the Me generation. "We were taught that we were the most important people in the world," says Columnist Greene, who became a father at age 35. "If you have a child, someone is more important than...