Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken precisely in feet and inches, but he also has a far less exact psychological, or perceived, height. In the eye of the be holder, he may seem taller or shorter in direct proportion to his title or accomplishments. So says Australian Psychologist Paul R. Wilson in the Journal of Social Psychology...
Tormented Transit. Typically, it all started with notes that Lowry, an inveterate journal keeper, took during a trip to Mexico in late 1945 and early 1946. "By God, we have a novel here!" Lowry cried on first rereading them. Editor Day more accurately describes Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid as "a notebook on its way to becoming a novel." Yet this fragmented, compulsively self-centered, brilliant half book does not at all misrepresent its author. For Lowry was less a novelist than, in Day's words, "a diarist, compulsive notetaker, poet manqué, alcoholic, philosophizing...
...this author who sports the name of the 18th century philosopher of capitalism and who gambols over the arcane and volatile ground of Wall Street and international finance? John Kenneth Galbraith pleads innocent. Is the Wall Street Journal perhaps sheltering an upstart? No. Impeccable leaks lead to George J. W. Goodman, 37, a former Rhodes scholar, novelist (The Wheeler Dealers), onetime writer for TIME and FORTUNE, and now editor of a journal for mutual-fund managers. A shade under medium height, conservatively sheared, dressed and spectacled, Goodman blends in perfectly with the traffic on Wall Street. He is the archetypal...
Into this w.c. of an Eden slinks Vesta, an unvirginal Eve disguised as a woman's magazine editor. Vesta tempts Enderby into writing non-poems for her journal under the signature of Faith Fortitude, and before he can barricade that bathroom door, she has him out of his holy of holies and into an unholy marriage...
...article in The Art Journal Coolidge assigned some rather large responsibilities to this community of scholars. He wrote that because the church, the court, and the legislature no longer command influence in molding opinion, the university has become a "tribunal of intellectual appeal," and the university art museum must pass judgment on aesthetic ideals...