Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fallows also points to concerns that grew out of his writing for The Washington Monthly, a small public affairs oriented journal, as a source of his sympathy for Carter. Fallows says Carter shares his interest in "the way government structurally gets screwed up and the way that conventional ideologies don't take care of a lot of the ways that government goes wrong." He offers the civil service unions--once a "grand hero of the left" but now an "impediment to much of what you want to do"--as one reason why he supports the ex-Georgia governor...
...says. "Sometimes we can be brave as hell, and sometimes just as cowardly." Or, "editing a newspaper in South Africa is like walking blind folded through a mine-field," was the way Pogrund put it in an article that appears in the Autumn-Winter '75 issue of the Neiman Journal. "It is indeed a mine field of legal hazards...
...Street Journal's Jerry Landauer and Christopher A. Evans and the Washington Post's Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward...
Died. Gilbert Ryle, 76, British philosopher and editor of the journal Mind (1948-71); after a stroke; in Whitby, England. Ryle, who taught at Oxford for 44 years, was a prolific writer with a fresh, piquant style. A linguistic analyst in the tradition of Wittgenstein and A. J. Ayer, he maintained that the true role of philosophy was to clarify, by closely examining the ways in which words were used. In his best-known work, The Concept of Mind (1949), Ryle held that the mind should not be viewed as operating separately from the body, like a "ghost...
...Lincoln had many skills, but the New England Journal of Medicine recalls one that contemporary doctors (and their lawyers) may especially appreciate. In 1856, while he was practicing law in the Springfield, Ill., area, the future President was asked by two physician friends to defend them in a malpractice suit brought by an elderly man whom they had treated for a leg fracture. Though the break eventually knitted, the limb was slightly shorter than before. Briefed by the doctors on the difference age makes in the brittleness and healing of bone, Lincoln dramatically demonstrated the point in court with broken...