Word: columns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preoccupation with the sad state of the U.S. as he sees it. Too much is synthetic and contrived, he insists, from the current sterile search for the "real self" to the bloodless, painless violence that saturates TV. Everything is produced to be consumed and discarded, and he puts his column in the same category. "There is something sneaky about us," he writes, proving once again that the best humorists are often arch-pessimists. "It is almost as if we were determined to come and go without leaving a footprint. It is fitting that this should be the generation for which...
After ten years of writing a thrice-weekly political column, Barry Goldwater brought it to an end last week. He was writing his last column, he said, because he was becoming "more politically active" in Arizona-meaning that he plans to run for Carl Hayden's Senate seat this year. Not only had he become too busy to write, he said, but so had the "three marvelous people" who had been helping him with the column: "Stephen Shadegg, who has turned into a successful author; Tony Smith, who was on my staff for many years; and my old standby...
...which syndicated Goldwater, was sorry to see him go. Though the number of papers carrying him had dropped from a peak of 110 in 1963 to 75, it included more large metropolitan dailies. Replacing Goldwater in the Times is none other than Everett M. Dirksen, who will write one column a week. For his debut, Dirksen muted his usual flamboyance and delivered a somber little lecture on international politics. Even though India is "liberal and leftish," he wrote, even though she has seized tiny Goa, harassed Pakistan and hobbled free enterprise, she has one thing going for her: size. Therefore...
Last week Prime Minister Harold Wilson filed suit against an American-owned newspaper that is distributed but not published in Britain-the International Herald Tribune, edited and printed in Paris. The offending column, written by Flora Lewis, appeared the same day as an unrelated wire service story reporting that Wilson had won an out-of-court settlement from The Move, a rock 'n' roll group. To promote a new record, the group had circulated a postcard showing Wilson nude on a bed with a woman labeled "Harold's very personal secretary." Wilson won an apology plus more...
Deserved Contempt. The Lewis column over which Wilson sued did, in fact, take a lot of liberties. It appeared under a headline reading THE OTHER WOMAN IN THE LIFE OF HAROLD WILSON, with a picture of Wilson, Mrs. Wilson and his personal political secretary, Mrs. Marcia Williams. Miss Lewis wrote that "during the Profumo scandal, the Tories' Quintin Hogg nearly brought the House down when he tried to defend Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, saying he didn't understand the fuss about Profumo's private life, since there were 'adulterers on the Opposition front bench.' That...