Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything still secret in Bonn?" Konrad Adenauer once asked in exasperation. The answer then was nein - and it probably still is today. Both citizens and foreigners in West Germany are frequently accused of being spies. That jaunty journalist is charged behind his back with being in the pay of the KGB, the Soviet secret police. This hovering waiter is suspected of eavesdropping for the CIA. All government secretaries, of course, are thought to nip out at lunchtime with top-secret letters to be photographed by enemy agents...
Laird is expected soon to appoint an unprecedented official commission, including people from outside the Pentagon, to review the strategic priorities for the next few decades. To forestall any doubts about the commission's findings, the chairmanship will probably go to a prominent outsider, perhaps a journalist. Any new Administration could be expected to take at least a perfunctory reappraisal of the nation's military posture. Under attack, Nixon's men seem to be taking seriously the need for a genuine and comprehensive review...
...York, then the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune, commemmorated the event with something short of glorious exaltation. Instead, it published a two-art article by a young journalist with the pleasantly déjà-vu name of Tom Wolfe. The article was entitled "Tiny Mummies: The True Story of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead." And, as they say back in the New Yorker's 43rd Street office, it became the talk of the town...
...Yorker study demanded the cruel precision of an Evelyn Waugh, Wolfe stuffed in the vitality of a Rabelais. As they have developed, however, Wolfe's essays have taken on a more structured approach (and he is now working on a reportorial novel), but he will always remain the great journalist of kitsch. He is the chronicler of modern America's myths, and myths have a tendency to go berserk--even as they are being told...
...ought to We're journeyman journalist, and we're old and tired and cyniical, and there's some reason to suspect we might look into the Establishment someday. But in the meantime we're journeyman beizbol players. Yersterday afternoon, in Radcliffe Quad, we took the CRIMSON 22-21. The CRIMSON says we lost 23-2. The CRIMSON is full of what the NEW YORK Times calls...