Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media's display of false astonishment that some people would pay so much for items of such small monetary value wasn't surprising. Indeed, if the media is "our national nervous system," as Tom Wicker, the former New York Times columnist, wrote in a 1983 article looking back on the Kennedy years, then its anxious effort, in this period when many still consider it good to be selfish and greedy, to escape examining the emotions which the auction made manifest is understandable...
...There were a lot of older people returning from the war who were dominant, and rightly so," says Lewis, now a New York Times columnist. "For those of us obsessed with The Crimson, they were names from history--and suddenly, there they were...
...There were quite a few G.I. Bill people who had not been at Harvard before and who were quite older," says J. Anthony Lewis '48, a Crimson editor who is currently a New York Times columnist. "There was a lot of crowding...
This group included such men as Time and Life publisher Henry Luce, future Secretary of State Dean Acheson, future head of the Central Intelligence Agency Allen Dulles, columnist Joseph Alsop and others who felt the need to prod the Roosevelt administration toward greater support for the Allies...
...sign of a good idea is that you think it's been done before. But in Kennedy & Nixon (Simon & Schuster; 377 pages; $25), author Christopher Matthews, a newspaper columnist and television pundit, places a frame around these epic 20th century figures for the first time, revealing in this smart, well-researched, readable book that the two cold warriors had more in common than one may suspect. Matthews' thesis is that both Kennedy and Nixon secretly despised the Establishment--Nixon because he felt excluded from it, Kennedy because he felt above it. Most of all they were united by their ambition...