Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scrupulous hand of Co-Editor William Arrowsmith, 38, translator in 1959 of the lusty Satyricon of Petronius. To many Arion readers, Arrowsmith's version of Aristophanes' rollicking Knights' Prologue made the first issue worth its price ($1.50). Editor W. Robert Jones of the staider Classical Journal calls Arion "most provident in peril, courage and hope...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Tonight's subject: "Highway Robbery," the alleged misuse of federal funds in the interstate-highway program...
Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, edited by Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett. This latest-to-be-edited volume of Boswell's journal cannot deepen the portrait of Johnson, but Bozzy's entertaining chatter continues delightfully as he describes the doctor, a great bag of prejudice and conversation set atop a tiny horse, clambering over the wet Scottish islands...
...approaching 50.000 circulation-up from 5.000 the first year-Foreign Affairs is within a hair's breadth of paying its own way. But the magazine remains the same journal that was conceived 40 years ago: an international forum, still wrapped in the same blue cover, still printed on a flatbed press, still paying heads of government $150 an article. All that has changed is the world. Isolation did indeed die with the last doughboy, as Foreign Affairs' founders so clearly foresaw. "All we can really say after 40 years," says Editor Armstrong,"is that we've been...
Published in 1785, Boswell's Tour proved a sort of tryout for the Life that appeared six years later. But the published Tour varied considerably from the actual journal that Boswell kept, most of which turned up a generation ago in a croquet box at an Irish castle. First brought out in 1936. the journal is now reprinted with much supplementary mate rial drawn from documents that have since come to light. Densely annotated, the present volume is as formidable as Johnson, but much of it, freed of foot notes, is also as chatty as only Boswell could...