Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Gershun, currently associate editor of the Review, takes office as its president this January, she will head a staff of 30, including two women. She said yesterday she foresees "no problems working with a predominately male staff because it's very good...
...Editor's note--For reasons which he claims "go way back," Harvard hockey coach Bill Cleary refuses to talk to The Crimson...
...collection of book reviews. A group of essays should not be treated on the same textual level as a novel or a work of non-fiction. But Daedalus, as its authors would have you believe, is no ordinary journal. In his preface to the fall 1976 edition, The Editor explains that the work is arranged thematically and integrated logically so as to provide the unity of a book-length treatise. Maybe it is that prefatory buildup which makes the 12 essays contained in this issue entitled "American Civilization: New Perspectives" seem so disjointed and singularly irrelevant. The veil of pretension...
Roger Rosenblatt's short piece "Growing Up On Television" suffers from different problems. Rosenblatt, literary editor of the New Republic, does not commit Coles's stylistic abuses. But he provides so little analysis and arrives so infrequently at conclusions about television's actual role in adult life that the piece seems ill-fitted for an analytical journal. Instead of coming to terms with the crucial role television has played, Rosenblatt adopts the posture of those television critics who prefer to deal with the subject from on high. Thus, instead of a focused critique of the cult of money...
...Alger Hiss, New Deal whiz kid, Harvard Law graduate, head of the Carnegie Endowment for World Peace, was accused by an ex-Communist named Whittaker Chambers first of being a Communist, then later of passing State Department documents during the 1930s to the Communist underground. Chambers, a senior editor at Time, made his initial accusations in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), where Hiss vigorously denied the charges. Despite Chambers' somewhat sordid past, the weight of evidence seemed on his side in the two perjury trials that followed; Chambers produced State Department documents allegedly typed...