Word: columns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fifth Column. The Communists' successful application of widespread pressure has forced a painful sequence of choices and consequences on the allies. Required to use all their armies to defend the cities and the line along the DMZ, allied commanders no longer have enough manpower to move out in pursuit of Communist battalions. They are thus unable to hit at their besiegers, or even put out sufficient reconnaissance patrols to determine the size and deployment of the Communist armies arrayed around them. Nor can the U.S. and the South Vietnamese be sure how many enemy forces, the remnants...
...frustration now damaging the nation's spirit." The charge comes not from a partisan politician or a bitter New Radical, but from a usually liberal journalist disillusioned with his profession. Columnist and ABC-TV Commentator Howard K. Smith, 53, last week gave up his two-year-old column because in past years "I had the exhilarating feeling of being a tiny part in a great age of journalism. I miss that feeling...
...would talk, and his humility was so great that he thought nothing of once-at the expense of a fist fight-stopping two boys from kicking over anthills. After he was killed, I called two local papers and asked the editors why they hadn't done a column on , him, and one answer was, "Is that story really that important?" But God bless TIME...
...interesting, though more grotesque, is an untitled two-paragraph selection in section one, page seven, describing in Poe-like terms "some kind of a funny growth thing happening with my body." Avatar's style is suited only to these short pieces, and to the notes-and-comment column entitled "Patchwork...
Avatar overflows with paranoia in reacting to its oppressor, "the establishment," and hurls hackneyed epithets ("mass media," "dying already half-dead social order") at whoever. "the establishment is." Even WGBH is part of the tyrannical "commercial complex." A column by "Jeremy" carries this irrationality to the extreme, blaming the war rhetoric of General Westmoreland and the new Defense Secretary, "Clark M. Gifford" (sic), on the Record-American...