Word: editoral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also down the chute went one director, the costume designer, the executive story editor - and the original Robbins story line itself...
Alas, the marvels of science so relished by Wells have produced far less than Utopia. Lovat Dickson, formerly an editor and director of Macmillan and Co., Wells' London publisher, cannot quite forgive the man who blithely sold the masses on the future. But he makes clear that Wells was the first gulled victim of his own salesmanship, and that with his extraordinary capacity for hope went an extraordinary capacity for disenchantment. Inside the complacent optimist, a desperate pessimist was signaling wildly...
...research is the economics of education, an area of economic study which he has been partly responsible for developing. This spring, on leave from Harvard, he spent two months in Cuba. Radicalism is a tradition in his family; his great-grandfather, of the same name, was the Abolitionist editor of The Springfield Republican. Here, in an interview with SUMMER NEWS Contributing Editor Jerald R. Gerst, Bowles discusses his impressions of Cuba.) Just How Was The Decision To Visit Cuba Made...
...journalist or foreign businessman gets an interview with the U.A.R. President. When a research employee was jailed for reporting critically on Egypt's economy, Heikal not only got the man freed and the report released but also forced Intelligence Chief Amin Huweidi to write a letter-to-the-editor explaining why he had tried to suppress the report in the first place. Lamented Huweidi later: "Centers of power are supposed to have been abolished, but one big power center obviously remains." Even Heikal's detractors readily concede that next to Nasser himself, Heikal is the most powerful...
Nasser backs Heikal not only because they are friends but because the editor is also extremely useful to him. Even Heikal's occasional criticism of the regime-always within safe bounds -is of advantage to Nasser. It acts as a safety valve for popular grievances. Nasser himself has even planted criticisms of this or that functionary or institution with Heikal, then taken action under the guise of bowing to popular will. Heikal puts his influence to good use, battling the bureaucrats and campaigning for a freer press and civil liberties in a country that often views such activities...