Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When blonde Marjorie Wallace, 20, of Indiana became the first American to win the "Miss World" title last November, she pledged to remain single for a year and agreed to tour the world promoting the virtues of single womanhood. In no time, however, Marjorie overdid it. Her love life sizzled...
by JAMES JONES
When America finally came home from Viet Nam, journalists and their editors were faced with a new problem:How to report back that the light at the end of the tunnel had turned out to be a 40-watt bulb? The editors at the New York Times Magazine had a...
Jones had been an expatriate in Paris for 15 years. He has a nostalgically appealing, soft-core cynicism about politicians and foreign policy reminiscent of those 1930s' middleweight movie heroes. It is what made his first book, From Here to Eternity-with its individualistic little guy battling bravely but...
At 52, Jones, the ex-World War II corporal and veteran of the watch on Waikiki and Guadalcanal, is no longer disturbed by the glitter of military brass. With a large talent for observation and characterization he is able to separate individuals from the moral horrors of the war. He...