Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current system of selecting members for the honoraries is arbitrary, to say the least. What is the justification for assuming that the twenty-five top performers on first-year exams are those most interested in and best suited to writing for a scholarly journal or that those who score a few points lower should prepare Ames cases? Nor is it clear why grades should be deemed the sole measure of competency for most places in Legal...
...JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Diary of a Student Revolution" closely follows last December's confrontation between the University of Connecticut's Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.) and the school's president...
Breslin will turn out a monthly piece for New York, the magazine he helped start after the World Journal Tribune folded. But mostly he will write fiction, which some of his meaner critics claim he's been doing all along anyway. It's touch and go whether the world of letters will shine brighter because Breslin is there, but it's a certainty that newspapers will seem greyer without...
...defined as "a disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistisc impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often a perverse nature." For further information, we are told to consult an article entitled "The Puzzled Penis" which Portnoy's psychiatrist Dr. Spielvogel has published in an international psychiatry journal. The monologues that follow--some narrative recitatives, some pained arias, a few even approaching sociological chorales -- are elaborations on the themes which Roth first states so bluntly...
Editor Thomas McCormack asked his contributors for a "craftsman's journal" telling how one of their books came to be written. The answers range widely in tone and intent. In discussing The Rector of Justin, Louis Auchincloss, a New York aristocrat and a practicing attorney, makes novel writing sound only slightly more difficult than drawing a will. He acknowledges the existence of problems and flounderings, but they all seem to succumb to his analytic brain. In addition, he appears to know just where he stands: "I am neither a satirist nor a cheerleader," he says with cool assurance...