Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wall Street Journal has also been flooded with letters. Only articles on abortion and gun-control have stirred more controversy, according to Bulkeley and an editor in the Journal's New York office...
...portrayed a pessimistic, almost Portnoy-in-reverse picture: it is so extraordinarily difficult for daughters to break their mothers' possessive bonds. Since its appearance in 1977, the book has sold 250,000 copies in hard-cover and an even more astonishing 2 million in paperback. A onetime editor and freelancer, Friday has become a favorite of the lecture circuit and TV talk shows...
They did not. After due thought, and in some cases second thought, student papers at Princeton (where, as at Harvard, the editor is a woman), Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale and Brown ran the ad, deciding, as Brown Daily Herald Editor in Chief Robert Linn explained, "to let people make up their own minds." Unbowed and uncensored, Chan continued his wintry progression through the Ivy League, stirring up debate, protest and publicity At Yale, when Daily News Publisher Thomas L. Kelly accepted the ad, overriding the editorial board's published distaste, posters appeared on campus urging FIGHT PLAYBOYBUNNYISM. At Columbia...
...Grumbach whose center-right leanings contributed to the magazine's close ties to President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. But a year later, says Grumbach, when it looked as if a Socialist-Communist coalition might come to power (it did not), Goldsmith began shopping for an editor more sympathetic to the left. Grumbach was kicked upstairs into an executive job sans power, secretary or office space. He protested and was fired...
...have little or no scientific training. But he also does well with specialists. Astronomer-Author Carl Sagan considers Asimov "the greatest explainer of the age." Says a Harvard research physicist: "Frankly, I read the man so that I can explain my own work to friends." Martin Gardner, an editor of Scientific American, calls Asimov "one of the top science writers in the business simply because, like all good novelists, he knows how to dramatize...