Word: columns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...units that could provide aid if his tanks got into trouble. "I like to be out on the point where there's nothing but me and the goddam Germans," growled Abrams, "and we can fight by ourselves." It was Abrams in his Sherman tank who led the relief column into Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. It was Abrams again who led the dash to the Rhine, moving so fast that he once surprised a German general and his staff with their boots up on their desks...
...folds. The Reporter, however, will not completely disappear from view. "I'm not abandoning ship," insists Ascoli. Two topnotch reporters, Meg Greenfield and Denis Warner, will be transferred to Harper's magazine, which is striving energetically to keep up with the times. Ascoli will contribute a regular column and write books-though he will doubtless remain out of tune. In the current Reporter, he bids farewell to yet another friend on the subject of Viet Nam: President Johnson. L.B.J., he writes, has "run out on his pledge to the people of South Viet...
...fifties, McGill was definitely a "law of the land" moderate: he stressed not the moral justness of the Supreme Court decision, but the necessity for accepting the Court's authority and eschewing any form of violence. "The exercise of authority may not always be palatable," he wrote in one column, "but it is accepted...
...McGill has consistently scored all forms of Southern extremism. Some of his most notable editorial writing, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958, has been in angry pursuit of the Ku Klux Klan and other advocates of violence. "To the Kluxer mentality," he wrote in one anthologized column, "the Christian communion cup must be a Dixie...
Most of Alistair Cooke's readers and listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC. (His 1,000th broadcast was what provoked the Guardian's praising with faint damns.) Cooke, 59, takes obvious delight in confounding the usual cliches about the U.S., in praising what is denounced, in minimizing what's exaggerated, in try ing to persuade his audience to give up the "easy joys of righteous indignation."He is a master of the unexpected...