Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal proposals to regulate the use of children as medical subjects will probably prevent their exploitation without hampering legitimate research, William J. Curran, professor of Legal Medicine at the Medical School wrote in an editorial in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...
China's domestic policies have not been spared. Says the Soviet ideological journal Kommunist, China is wracked by "general social disorder, economic chaos and discontent." Tass charged that the Chinese people have suffered "a sharp drop in living standards, while millions have been repressed or exiled." The news agency also accuses Peking of grossly favoring the Han Chinese majority while mistreating its ethnic minorities...
Especially in the middle of the novel, Gordon's prose--saturated with adjectives; empty, if not revolting characters; and lurid sexual details--reads like something out of Mademoiselle or Ladies' Home Journal (in both she has published short stories). but when Margaret, Isabel's old housekeeper, reappears towards the end, the writing tightens up again. Margaret practically embodies that stubborn, un-American subculture, which the author seems to identify with Catholicism. Even if Final Payments lacks a clear message and Mary Gordon's language often crumples under the weight of her cliches, at least one gets the sense...
This collection of essays, journal and diary entries vividly recaptures the heady atmosphere of the '30s, as well as the long hangover that followed. Unlike memoirs of the period that have been recollected in tranquillity, Spender's book unfolds like a collection of vintage newsreels. With many members of his generation, the young poet rushed into ideology. He heralded "the birth of a new world" through Marxism, championed the cause of Republican Spain and did his best to see no evil hi the side he supported. If loyalist troops were sometimes brutal, Spender had an answer: "It seems...
...their $1.5 million budgets on TV. While Rhodes has only two paid campaign aides, Celeste has built a professional organization throughout usually Republican southern Ohio and is counting on disaffection with Rhodes among normally Democratic urban voters in northern Ohio. Last week a statewide poll by the Akron Beacon Journal showed Celeste moving ahead by four percentage points-quite a turnabout from polls that once gave Rhodes a 20-point lead. But Rhodes professes to be unconcerned. Said he: "I haven't even opened...