Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversy all springs from the 16th century loss of Columbus' original voyage journal. Historians now must rely on an abridged third-hand version containing numerous inconsistencies, according to Arne B. Molander, author of one of the essays...
Molander cites a combination of 98 clues compiled from Columbus's journal which support his theory. He claims that other historians, misled by what were probably clerical errors, contradict much of Columbus' journal by naming the Southern Bahamas...
...chemists at the University of Chicago have added an important new twist to this version of the apocalypse. Edward Anders and his colleagues reported in the journal Science last week that they had found evidence of a global firestorm that raged about the time the dinosaurs disappeared. The conflagration, they say, suggests that the consequences of a great Cretaceous impact were even worse than the Alvarezes had dreamed...
Even at Harvard, there have of course been exceptions. For example, the now defunct Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs was a high quality periodical which, under the influence and sponsorship of Dean of Students, Archie C. Epps III and Professor Martin Kilson, ran for approximately four years (the Dean was then a graduate student and tutor). These exceptions however, merely underline the rule. To this should be added the extraordinary organizational efforts of Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes who has sponsored the biannual William Belden Nobel lectures, and those of the William J. Seymour Society which...
...Reagan Administration has long contended that black leaders do not represent the views of the black community as a whole. Last week that argument got some support. A poll in Public Opinion magazine, the journal of the American Enterprise Institute, indicated that a majority of blacks do not support liberal prescriptions favored by most of their leaders...