Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these recommendations, though, can't compete with Sagan's and his editor's mistakes. The main problem lies in Broca's Brain's construction. Sagan strings loosely together 25 of his essays--published in everything from Physics Today to Holiday magazine--only one of which is more than 15 pages long. The book is hence painfully disjointed; he leaps from topic to topic at random. Redundancy creeps in--a theme introduced in one essay is often uselessly repeated in a second, and not infrequently beaten into the ground in a third. Most seriously, though, these essays are just too short...
...toured America, the Pope artfully carried out a strategy that he had planned well in advance of leaving the Vatican. Says Jerzy Turowicz, editor in chief of Cracow's respected Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny and a man who has known Karol Wojtyla for more than 30 years: "He looks at the American church and sees groups talking to each other using different 'languages.' They cannot understand each other. He would like to reunite the church. He is for pluralism, but with some limits, so that it does not verge on anarchy. He would like to restore church discipline and obedience...
Peter Steinfels, executive editor of Commonweal and author of The Neo-Conservatives: Perhaps the Pope's visit will finally convince the media that religion is a serious reality, not only in backward places like Mexico and Iran but also in the U.S. Polls show that 90% of Americans believe in God and pray often, but most of the serious observations about this country are made by the other 10%. Nothing has changed since H.L. Mencken in the way that public commentators look at the reality of religious life...
...Carter left for Camp David with his wife Rosalynn, who has become increasingly involved in the drafting of his speeches. Described by an aide as "feisty and fierce" these days, she feels that the professional speechwriters are not helping Jimmy get across his simple populist message. Acting as an editor, she put some of the finishing touches on Jimmy's Cuban speech...
Peking is calling this ambitious national goal a New Long March, an echo of the 6,000-mile trek in the 1930s by Mao and his troops that eventually led to the takeover of China. To check on the progress toward this goal, TIME Science Editor Frederic Golden last month visited Chinese research centers, universities, hospitals, factories and communes on a 15-day, five-city tour with the first delegation of American science journalists to the People's Republic. His report...