Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must make judgments about what is most important and allot space accordingly. Descriptions of jobs performed and accomplishments must be brief and listing of activities selective. If you can't fit your resume on one page, put all of the most important information on the first page. Certain information that is included in longer resumes, such as a list of publications or a list of references, may be presented separately as attachments if you decide that they are important to your application. Other attachments may include an annotated transcript, clippings, writing sample, portfolio, and letters of recommendation...
...process, he transformed the respected but financially moribund Times into one of the world's most valuable media enterprises. How Rosenthal's editorial talent propelled him to the pinnacle of American journalism despite what many agree are serious personality flaws is the theme of Joseph Goulden's Fit to Print: A.M. Rosenthal and His Times (Lyle Stuart...
Originally commissioned by Simon & Schuster, the manuscript of Fit to Print was rejected there and at a number of other top publishing houses. Goulden, author of 15 other books, including the 1972 best seller The Superlawyers, ultimately turned to Lyle Stuart, an imprint with a reputation for taking chances. Stuart claims that Simon & Schuster backed away because the book is too hard hitting and would offend the proprietors of the country's most influential book review. Not true, says Simon & Schuster; Goulden's work simply fell below its standards...
...sides. Charting Rosenthal's rise at the Times from campus stringer at the City College of New York, Goulden provides a harsh account of his subject's personal life, including his prolonged extramarital affair with actress Katharine Balfour, whom, says Goulden, he promised to marry but eventually abandoned. Still, Fit to Print is at times as sympathetic as it is damning. Goulden clearly shares many of Rosenthal's conservative political views, and the author provides a sensitive account of the editor's painful childhood, during which Rosenthal lost his father and three sisters to accident and illness and came perilously...
While reporters at the Times are eagerly snapping up early copies of Fit to Print, Rosenthal, who has received a six-figure advance to write his memoirs, says he has not read it: "From what I can tell, it's like walking into a mess in the street. You step in it; you try to wipe it from your foot." Ironically, some of the best material in the book comes from Rosenthal, who at first refused to talk to Goulden but ultimately spent 20 hours with the author. "If you call Abe Rosenthal anything," he told a mystified Goulden...