Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover news. During the recent riots in Augusta, Ga., Frosch was the only reporter able to produce an eyewitness account of police killing a looter. He managed it by dodging black snipers' bullets half the night, police bullets the remainder. His Cambodian reporting was just as firsthand: he would listen to the military briefings, then set out to check them himself. Before Frosch's arrival in Cambodia, U.P.I, had suffered from embarrassing gaffes, even reporting the proclamation of the Cambodian Republic twice before it really happened, months later. With Frosch's appearance, cool reason and uncommon accuracy...
THIS year TIME correspondents ' once again are learning firsthand the physical and journalistic perils involved in covering war, insurgencies or riots-whether they be in Indochina, the Middle East or on a U.S. college campus. Last week showed that being on the scene of the fray can be as frustrating an experience as not being able to get there...
Jane Fonda, champion of the oppressed, last week came to the defense of another minority group. In Manhattan to film Klute, in which she plays a call girl, Jane accompanied an authentic prostitute to pick-up bars to observe the action firsthand. She quickly developed empathy for women who work the streets. "They are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions and competition," said Jane. "These ladies are saying out front, 'We want the goods too; so we'll do what other women do, but we'll get paid...
...guises and disguises of ambition, the glint of fever in the eye when a man is going for the Big Apple, the way a New Man on the make can use the old steppingstones (Cambridge common room, St. James's club) - all this Snow knows with firsthand certainty. For Snow, after all, is one of those who made it: the son of a shoe-factory clerk who became a Cambridge don and a Parliamentary Secretary. Sir Charles Percy Snow. A baron! Snow's heroes are the deserving successes: the realists. How could it be otherwise? They...
Tyrmand is particularly distressed by Americans who call for revolution. He lavishes on them the kind of contempt that can issue only from someone who has known revolution firsthand. Tyrmand, of course, takes words with a deadly seriousness because he knows that in a totalitarian state they can lead to death when used too freely. In America, revolutionary chatter seems both careless and frivolous...