Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is something in all of this. But even the most left-wing journalist would have a hard time saying with a straight face that he misses the days (just three or four years ago) when unions forbade the use of computers at newspapers. Even the opposition Labor Party isn't proposing to renationalize all the companies that have been sold off to private shareholders or to take back the formerly state-owned houses that have been sold to their tenants. Even those put off by the glitz and the greed of Thatcherworld wouldn't really like to return...
...many ways, this novel is more a chronicle of the family than of Jeremy's childhood. But all the characters are flat and do nothing for the work's landscape. Jeremy's mother is unbelievably callous. She is a well-known, talented journalist who carries her notebook with her everywhere and sees a feature article in every crisis in her son's life...
...What does "comp" mean, one may quite reasonably ask. "Competition?" No, heaven forbid, not "competition," the comp directors at The Crimson assured us. Not competition but merely "competence." You have to demonstrate that you're friendly enough to give a tour, for instance, or persistent enough to be a journalist...
...Mark Salzman wrote Iron and Silk, a recollection of his years as an English teacher in Changsha. Next spring he will produce a novel, tentatively titled Journey to the West, that mixes Chinese myth and actuality. And next month will bring The Great Black Dragon Fire, by veteran journalist Harrison Salisbury. The fire was not fiction; it occurred in 1987, and it burned a Manchurian forest "so large that, like China's Great Wall, it could have been seen from the moon...
Boredom with the issue of apartheid, not government censorship, has caused a decrease in U.S. coverage of South Africa, a South African journalist concluded at a Kennedy School of Government forum last night...