Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite his vanity and predilection for the bottle, Boswell above all, as Carlyle said of him, had a good heart. As long as he could refrain from showing off and writing newspaper squibs about himself, he was a first-rate journalist. Boswell scrutinized everything around him and his works, the lively tour of the Hebrides and his biography of Johnson, brought a plethora of fascinating minutiae to light. Explaining Boswell's literary brilliance, Brady notes, "like Johnson he made acute observations about others because he relentlessly observed himself." And when this man--who wanted everyone to like him, who ardently...
...George Bush on his eight-day trip through eleven states. Washington Correspondent David Beckwith observed the last stops of Geraldine Ferraro's precedent-setting campaign. "Her traveling entourage was upbeat and lighthearted to the end," he reported. "It was one of those occasions in the life of a journalist when you are very aware of watching history being made...
...Jesse Jackson improperly began to think of the Greenfield' Past Colleague Milton Coleman as a friend rather than as a journalist when he refered in Coleman's presence to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymie Town" added Greenfield...
...main consideration for a Chinese journalist is whether an article is profitable for the government and for the people. "If it's good, then we can write it," Yang says. Moreover, the primary duty of the press is to explain Chinese policy and to convince the people that the policy is right, she continues. "Of course, we only say the truth, not the false," Hsiao adds...
Last March she told a British journalist, "I don't believe in regretting my fate, but it is sometimes very hard. I have not seen my son and daughter for 17 years, and I have a grandson and granddaughter whom I have never seen." Svetlana's telling final cry: "Sometimes it's an almost superhuman effort not to drop everything and to run and get a ticket to go and see them. Sometimes I don't care what the regime is. I just want to see my grandchildren...