Word: j
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York. Although it may be more a reflection on the sorry state of American magazine writing than on the two magazines' brilliance, New York provided an outlet for talented writers like Richard Reeves. The Voice, besides press critic Cockburn, probably the best of his ilk since A. J. Liebling, printed Nat Hentoff, Ken Auletta, and Robert Christgau, probably the best pop music critic around. Andrew Sarris is arguably the best film critic in America. And "The Greasy Pole," a political column co-written by Cockburn and James Ridgeway, provides some of the best leftist commentary on American politics today...
...part of a disturbing new trend--the consolidation of American magazines under a central ownership the way American daily newspapers began to huddle in chains during the 1950s. During that period, a morning newspaper might buy its afternoon rival to consolidate costs, creating monopoly, or what A. J. Liebling called "profitable stagnation." The news that gets reported may not be all that's fit to print; sometimes it may be, like Pravda, what the monopolist decides is news...
Across the crowded room from Mike and under the expert eye of Maitre d' Paul Delisle was Zbigniew Brzezinski, comfortably at work on his rockfish and the state of the world, much as he used to be when he was a young L.B J. aide. His hair is a little longer, the lines a little deeper, and he has a new title (presidential assistant for national security affairs), but he had no trouble finding his way to the restaurant or through the menu. He never used to have any doubt about what ought to be done to the world...
...Crow in the South, and his sophisticated cousin, J. Crow, Esquire, in the North, were constantly telling us that we needed less money, less education, less political representation; and they even moved us from communities and neighborhoods and told us that we lived in ghettoes...
Since the 1973 report, Walter J. Leonard, the University's affirmative action officer, has criticized both departments and the University administration for continued foot-dragging in implementing affirmative action plans...