Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least three in jail for a full year without even going through the formalities of declaring them guilty at a trial. Some 150 leading scientists and writers have petitioned the government to hold an open trial for Aleksei Dobrovolsky, 29, and Yuri Galanskov, 29, who circulated an underground literary journal called Phoenix, and for Aleksandr Ginzburg, 30, who had smuggled to the West the transcript of the 1966 trial of Writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel...
...subtle. If he presumes to criticize the regime, even in private, a writer may forfeit his job and his chances for promotion, or the possible publication of his work (all the publishing houses are state-owned). If he cooperates, he may win appointment to the board of a prestigious journal or get a luxury apartment in the Moscow suburbs. Though the regime has made dissent highly unprofitable, many of the younger writers still seem to feel that the price of resistance is indeed well worth paying...
...thoroughly explored in this book, which is subtitled "Thoughts During a Useless Time." Its author, Paul Goodman, is a novelist, poet, essayist, psychologist and social critic whose book Growing Up Absurd gave him guru status with a large segment of American youth. Five Years is a self-analytical journal of random thoughts, jotted down from 1955 to 1960, when Goodman was between 45 and 50 years old. It is a ruthlessly honest confession in the manner of Rousseau: Goodman recounts how he scrounged for food, sex and love while materially and spiritually down and out. During that period...
Magazines published by tax-free organizations may not make profits, but some of those that take advertising certainly make money. By the end of the year, the Journal of the American Medical Association will have sold some $12 million worth of ads; the National Geographic will have taken in an estimated $8.6 million in advertising revenue; Nation's Business, published by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, should earn $4,000,000 from ads; and the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Science will probably have ad revenues of $2.2 million. For years, taxpaying competitors of these...
...Journal will probably come out two or three more times this year, Business Manager Edmond L. Lincoln '71 said yesterday. Like the first issue, the rest will be free...