Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Provocative though many of the black right-wing ideas are, it seems unlikely that they wilL inspire new recruits for the G.O.P. Observes William Raspberry, the astute black columnist for the Washington Post: "Even those blacks who criticize the traditional Liberal approach are not willing to say that the best way to help blacks is to get the Government out of the way, and let the market work. We don't have the security to allow the Government to be neutral with regard to our struggle...
MARRIED. Jimmy Breslin, 51, streetwise author and columnist; and Ronnie Eldridge, 51, assistant director for intergovernmental and community relations for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; both for the second time; in New York City...
...litigating important civil rights suits. The New York Times rushed to the defense of academic freedom which it perceived as under attack, editorializing: "Surely Harvard law students should be able to make up their own minds about a teacher on the basis of what he teaches." Black syndicated columnist Carl T. Rowan concluded of the episode. "Now we have black students in the exalted climes of Harvard declaring all whites guilty of something--because they are white." Harvard Government professor Martin Kilson, also Black, wrote a piece for the Washington Post in which he blasted the "Ethnic Arrogance...
...York Times's food columnist confesses and celebrates...
...sent a couple of psychiatrists to size him up and then a platoon of police to take him away for further tests. When social workers offered him lodging in one of the city's shelters for the homeless, Cruz sniffed: "The shelters are pigpens." Said one local newspaper columnist: "He must have been one of the sanest men in the city of New York to refuse to live in those places." But at week's end Cruz had been relocated to a room in Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric ward to await legal proceedings about his fate...