Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muhammad Speaks, claims a circulation of 583,000). For most of its 67 years, the Amsterdam News has catered to the middle-class aspirations of Harlem's business and professional people. It is sold 90% on the newsstand, and its blazing red front-page headlines stress crime and gossip. But the rest of its news comes in quieter hues: close attention to black politics, knowledgeable reviews of black art, music and books, a World of Work page that offers stories on the movements of blacks in Government and corporate positions, personality profiles, accounts of business successes...
...young lawyer in the Victorian 1890s, Louis Brandeis wrote that "the press is overstepping in every direction the obvious bounds of propriety and of decency. Gossip is no longer the resource of the idle and of the vicious, but has become a trade, which is pursued with industry as well as effrontery." Many years later, as a Supreme Court Justice, Brandeis, in a famous dissent protesting the wiretapping of a bootlegger, sought to establish an individual's right to be let alone. This is a cause that has not gotten very far. Philip Kurland, the distinguished law professor...
Cosmopolitan praised the book as a marvelous gossip column. But Fallaci claims it is much more; she describes the work in its preface as "a document straddling journalism and history." In fact, her art--and this kind of interviewing is an art--claims the prerogatives of both, yet accepts the responsibilities of neither. As a result, her methodology and the material she gathers raises a lot of questions...
...moment let's forget all this theoretical crap and get down to the interesting stuff. There are a lot of evil minded gossip mongers--some of whom, you might be interested to know, are paid by foreign governments for their troubles--who claim that America's professional wrestlers are a bunch of beer-bellied longshoremen too washed up to take on any other work. Well, my friends, let's put that myth to rest right now. The men and women in big time wrestling are the most superbly conditioned athletes in the world. This fact may be ascertained...
...artist struggles with intractable materials - in the writer's case, words - to bring forth a new birth of consciousness. The pain is the passion. If the work lives, the birth is successful. From the minutiae of the constricted world Dickinson knew - tending her father, cooking, the muffled gossip of Amherst, Mass., in the 1870s and '80s - she built a bridge to the transcendental mystery of existence. At her best, she succeeded. What makes Julie Harris' performance so moving is that she perceives and conveys these moments of transcendence...