Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announced plans to revise the book, co-authoring it with her current lover, Richard Goodwin. Goodwin is a freelance presidential adviser with many enemies in government and academic circles. Kearn's announcement prompted a suit from Basic Books alleging breach of contract, a caustic editorial in The Wall Street Journal, and the revelation that the manuscript she submitted to the Gov department had already been edited, for about $8000, by fiction writer Michael Rothschild...
...editorial, which one Journal editor confided was aimed basically at Goodwin, said the co-authorship would turn a "piece of scholarship" into "polemic." It asked whether Harvard would grant tenure "on the basis of scholarship the author would never publish...
...meetings precipitated in part by the editorial, the senior Gov faculty gave a definite "no" to the Journal's question...
...followed Illinois in repealing their anti-sodomy laws. The American Psychiatric Association has stopped listing homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder, and AT&T, several other big corporations and the Civil Service Commission have announced their willingness to hire openly avowed gays. In a special issue on homosexuality, the teachers' journal, College English, went so far as to suggest editorially that although it may be painful, homosexual teachers should reveal their sexual preferences as a matter of "academic responsibility." If they do not do so, argued the editorial, they will contribute to a "cycle of oppression for our gay students...
...Labeling. Two months after both reports were published in a May issue of the British Medical Journal, the FDA's advisory committee on obstetrics and gynecology (ten M.D.s, one Ph.D.) met and concluded that a warning was justified. Among British-as well as American-women aged 30 to 39 who do not use the Pill, the incidence of nonfatal heart attacks is only 2.1 per 100,000. But for those on the Pill, the rate rises to 5.6 per 100,000. For women aged 40 to 44, the rates for the two groups are 9.9 and 56.9 respectively. Similar...