Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall evening in 1977, Tom Callahan, then a newspaper columnist with the Cincinnati Enquirer, was covering the fatal plane crash of the University of Evansville (Indiana) basketball team. Surveying the tragic scene where all the players and their coach died, he found himself looking at his assignment a bit differently from most of the reporters there, who were concentrating on straightforward news accounts of the disaster. Callahan was drawn to the quiet ironies, the little images that told the story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion...
...could have been the last hurrah for one of Western Europe's best-known socialist leaders. "Much is at stake for Olof Palme," wrote a top Swedish political columnist. "It is a question of winning or disappearing." During six years in political exile, former Prime Minister Palme, 55, crisscrossed the globe as a spokesman for disarmament groups and a mediator in the Iran-Iraq war. This summer, however, he reverted to his familiar role of politician, as he sought to avenge successive defeats that have deprived his Social Democratic Party from governing the cradle-to-grave welfare society that...
Variety, which has 13 full-time reporters, three editors and one columnist, is celebrated, too, for its use of such exotic locutions as "canto" for week, "cleffer" for songwriter, "w.k." for well known and "ankled" for quit. The paper faithfully records the cross-continent comings and goings of celebrities, and covered one of the great upheavals of the '70s with the one-line note, "D.C. to L.A.: Richard M. Nixon...
...still has a long way to go. The Reporter's night-life writer, George Christy, often requires people giving a party to pay his freelance photographers' fees in exchange for coverage in his column. The paper's recording-industry columnist, Dianne Bennett, a former Beverly Hills meter maid who is paid $ 100 or so a week, is known for using her Reporter platform to skewer her enemies, sometimes bending the facts to suit her case. Staffer Hank Grant routinely attributes items to "my studio spy Onda Lotalot" and "New York Spy Luce Lipp" in his daily column...
Some of the intellectuals approached by TIME resolutely refused to play. 'Tm against it," said Garry Wills, author, columnist and professor of American culture and public policy at Northwestern. "I think it's profoundly uneducated to frame the question in terms of lists." Others were willing to play but mistrusted the rules. "Very few books stand on their own," said Daniel Bell, professor of sociology at Harvard. "You cannot read Kant without having read Hume, and you can't read Hume without having read Descartes...