Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life was a readymade libretto. The music, too, was at hand-in the jazz concerts of the shantytown shebeens. A group met soon after the fighter's suicide and planned what may have seemed an impossible production: book by white Lawyer-Novelist Harry Bloom, lyrics by white Journalist Patricia Williams, score by black Jazz Composer Todd Matshikiza, direction by white Actor-Director Leon Gluckman, a veteran of London's Old Vic. When rehearsals began, they had to be conducted against odds: the curfew, threatening Johannesburg hooligan gangs, the rules of apartheid...
...called reason and feeling, truth and grace, science and morality, or mathematics and poetry. A character in his novel-itself a disturbing duality, part murky hokum, part stark reality-expresses the wish to be the first poet of modern physics. Clearly he speaks for the author, a German science-journalist, and if Schirmbeck's book falls short of poetry and has some irritating left-wing political overtones, it is nevertheless an extraordinary novel of ideas...
...which carries a cover story on the great architect.* Thus Querry, seeking nothing but anonymity, is doomed to the martyrdom of the fame he has repudiated. Later, the outside world in its total corruption is personified, as it has been so often before in novels, by a British popular journalist, and ex-London Timesman Greene must be presumed to know his type faces. Montagu Parkinson is in the Congo "for the riot," but a rumor about Querry and his newsworthy sanctity causes him to stop off at the leper hospital for a feature story...
...annual lectures, begun in 1903 and administered by the Graduate School of Public Administration, honor the memory of E.L. Godkin, British-American journalist of the 19th century, who founded "The Nation" and edited the New York Evening Post...
After 1942, when voluble Author-Journalist Norman Cousins became its editor, the Saturday Review of Literature began trying by one device after another to escape its original charter as a magazine of literary criticism. But for all its experimentation, the Saturday Review (circ. 248,179) has remained a magazine of comparatively limited audience. Last week it accepted a boost from a giant...