Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Controversial political columnist George F. Will will make his conservative mark on campus next year as a visiting lecturer in the government department...
...Boston Globe reported yesterday that therehad been controversy within the governmentdepartment over the appointment. Some wereconcerned that the invitation to Will wasideologically motivated while others questionedthe columnist's 25-year hiatus from academia...
Professors interviewed, however, were moredivided in their opinions of the appointment ofthe columnist...
Robertson's 1991 book, The New World Order argues that the last two centuries have witnessed an anti-Christian conspiracy involving, among others, European Jewish Bankers, Bavarian Freemasons, and Bolsheviks. The book draws heavily on explicitly anti-Semitic tracts from the early twentieth century. In what New York Times columnist Frank Rich has called a 'bait and switch,' Robertson quotes almost verbatim from these works, leaving out of his own work the glaringly obvious anti-Semitic remarks that permeate such rightly forgotten books as Nesta Webster's 1922 World Revolution: Plot Against Civilization...
...tremendous popularity of the book is something Berendt, a former editor of New York magazine and current columnist for Esquire, had not anticipated. A native of Syracuse, New York, he got the idea for his book three years after he took a weekend trip to Savannah in 1982. But the first literary agent to whom he submitted his manuscript turned it down, claiming it was too local and uncommercial. "When I was writing it people asked me if I thought it would be a best seller," says Berendt, "and I said, 'Are you kidding?' I thought it would...