Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most vocal critic has been New York Daily New columnist Jimmy Breslin, who charges that had the teenagers been white and Goetz Black, rather than the other way around, the public would have taken a completely different view of the situation. But Goetz's predilections aside, the likelihood of two dozen randomly chosen Manhattan residents all being racists is slim at best--more likely, those 23 grand jurors are subway riders...
...According to a massive survey published in her daily column last week, almost three-quarters of the women in America would happily give up sexual intercourse for a little tenderness. That may sound like 1953, or maybe 1853, but Landers is convinced. Concludes the nation's most widely syndicated columnist (more than 1,000 papers): "Clearly, there's trouble in Paradise...
...Landers survey appeared to have touched a hot button among sex therapists, who argued that the columnist's pile of letters should not be taken as definitive statements about sex in America. For one thing, argued the authorities, the groups tend to be self-selective, not the random respondents found in more scientifically conducted polls. Said San Francisco Psychologist Lonnie Barbach, author of For Each Other, Sharing Sexual Intimacy and several other books on human sexuality: "If you've got a problem you have more impetus to write in and share...
...more miffed by what Landers had to say about the American male than the American man. Three male columnists hammered away at the survey in a single issue of the Washington Post last week. Writing in the Chicago Tribune, Columnist Mike Royko parodied the Landers poll by posing a question to the nation's newest oppressed class: "Given a choice, men, would you rather be having sex with your wife or out bowling with your buddies?" Royko continued with a more pointed observation: "Nobody ever asks us about our needs, our frustrations . . . It's always, 'Madam, do you have your...
...short answer is rage, directed first at Goetz's harassers. It is hard for anyone to muster much sympathy for them or their Miranda rights. The loathing for these villains/victims is universal. Columnist Jimmy Breslin says it is because of race. The four youths are black, Goetz is white. There may be some truth to that, but it does not begin to explain things. Millions of blacks and Hispanics ride the New York subways. Interviews with most show them to be as sympathetic to Goetz and as hostile to his attackers as whites...