Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artistic recognition. He studied composition with Rimsky-Korsakov, but he had no musical talent. Soon, after, he joined the art circle of Alexandre Benois and Leon Bakst. Here, too, his gift was for organization and promotion. With Diaghilev as editor, the group published the World of Art, an influential journal that celebrated Baudelaire, Balzac and the pre-Raphaelites...
...formed himself into an avenging angel of bookkeeping; invoking the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to HEW audit files, he has made a nationwide study of the accounting practices of 100 colleges. Among his findings: overbilling of federal research grants for medical insurance; hiding cost overruns with "journal transfers"-the practice of billing one project for work done on another...
Three years ago, the Journal began selling space to individuals and interest groups that want to put their money ($1,500 a page) where their mouths are. Former HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. held forth for seven pages (paid for by Xerox Corp.) on the economics of aging, and Jimmy Carter was given two pages (on the house) to explain how the U.S. health-care system "rewards spending and penalizes efficiency...
This year the Journal expects to move into the black for the first time. "We've got more than an 85% renewal rate and our circulation is growing," boasts Editor Richard Frank. But the warm breeze of success should not be misconstrued as a prevailing wind for making the magazine, perish the thought, popular. Says Sullivan very firmly: "We are definitely not thinking that...
...perennial showings of The Commanders. The popular real-life espionage book A Man Called Intrepid is only one that has been translated into a television series. Last September, 80 stations all over the country began regularly feeding out a 25-episode presentation of World War II: G.I. Diary, a journal of obscure heroism. Undoubtedly, however, TV's varied World War II material was highlighted by 1978's blockbusting 9½-hour series Holocaust. Now all networks, in the words of CBS Special Projects Director Mae Helms, are "trying to come up with their own Holocaust...