Word: gatherer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scum, for scum of the earth. A self-proclaimed people's painter, he roams the streets on his battered motorcycle, white beard flying, paintbox strapped on his back, searching for subjects. He relishes getting caught up fitfully in the lives of the students, prostitutes, policemen and tourists who gather around his easel. He goes where the flow carries him, down to explore unused tunnels under Paris or off to join some young Americans on an outing in Spain. His paintings, when he manages to sell any, fetch only a few hundred dollars, yet somehow he supports a wife...
...lifetime interest of mine has been the exploration of learning styles. What has always fascinated me is the heterogeneity of people who gather here each September with their diverse personal and intellectual styles and how some Junes later they graduate with a common understanding. While each has his own individual modes of thinking, each also has something in common, which, on occasion, has referred to as the Harvard style...
Pancoast entered Morgan's life in 1979 when they were both being treated for depression at a private Southern California mental hospital. Pancoast, who held a series of minor show-business jobs, helped Morgan gather material for her palimony suit. After she lost the case and was forced to sell her jewelry and Mercedes, he split the rent on her $1,000-a-month apartment in North Hollywood...
...journalists have long fought, usually successfully, to prevent their back ground materials from being taken for use as evidence in court trials because such involvement seriously impinges on the ability to gather news. Nor would Kowet have needed to spend his own money fighting the subpoenas: when he left TV Guide, his tapes and notes became the property of the magazine, which later refused a Westmoreland subpoena for them...
There is a certain set of guidelines that good journalists adhere to. They know that, before writing, they will have had to gather a specific amount of information in order to avoid blatant inaccuracies. It is highly unfortunate that in his most recent editorial ("Divestiture Follies," 5/10/84), Peter J. Howe should have forgotten these time-honored recommendations...