Word: columnist
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...Presidential candidate, these groups could form local and national coalitions, effectively creating a political apparatus not tied to the electoral process, able to work inside the Democratic Party but drawing much of its power from its constituency and organization outside. The key to all this, according to Black syndicated columnist and Colgate University professor Manning Marable, is the platform--not the candidate...
DIED. James Wechsler, 67, liberal columnist and former editor of the New York Post; of cancer; in New York City. Wechsler was one of the first major journalists to oppose Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt tactics in the early 1950s. His signed columns (1961-83) often rang with moral indignation on behalf of the disadvantaged...
...winning coalition" has allowed the fundamentalist drive to recover some of its ideological purity. During the heyday of the groups collaboration, anti-abortionists had to struggle with the philosophical tension between their own "pro-life" claims and the Darwinistic ideals of the conservatives. Noting this internal contradiction, columnist Ellen Goodman wrote a couple years ago that the New Right "was great on getting you born." but showed less concern for the quality of life outside the womb. Safe delivery into the world, they argued, not welfare or Medicaid, is the outer limit of social responsibility for the individual...
...Central America is proving a "disaster" for Reagan, undoing the confidence that an improving economy has given him, and reviving the old specter that he is apt to get us into war. Faced with rising criticism, Reagan blames the press for its "hype and hoopla," moving New York Times Columnist James Reston to observe, "On these two subjects you have to pay attention, for he's an expert on both." The President's own pollster, Richard B. Wirthlin, samples opinions frequently to give Reagan a measure of American attitudes apart from what Wirthlin calls "the din and tumult...
Television has made campaign humor essential, since snappy one-liners help win precious time on the evening news. "Humor works," says Columnist Mark Shields, who sometimes gives jokes to Democrats. "It says, 'I'm not pompous. I'm not pretentious...