Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your pleasant review of John McPhee's book In Suspect Terrain [Jan. 31] states: "No other journalist avoids the obvious with as much success as John McPhee. To hold readers through books about oranges, the New Jersey Pine Barrens or birchbark canoes is a tribute to his eye for narrative grain and hand for prose dovetails. The sanding and finishing are done by editors at The New Yorker, where McPhee's books first appear." In actuality, John McPhee's prose is written, sanded and polished by John McPhee...
...rare the nation that seeks salvation by revealing such shame." In France, Interior Minister Gaston Defferre remarked, "This report is the honor of Israel. It gives the world a new lesson in democracy." The Italian Communist paper L'Unita called the report "a turning point for Israel," while Italian Journalist Arrigo Levi wrote in La Stampa of Turin: "It would be difficult to find any other nation at war that would let itself be subject to such an open and hard self-criticism...
...Boswells are not always so enamored of their subjects. "I thought I was going to love Lyndon Johnson," says Journalist Robert Caro. "I knew he was going to be shrewd and tough and ruthless, but that was all right." Caro, 47, a former investigative reporter, should have known better. The Power Broker, his 1,200-page study of New York's urban-development and highway czar Robert Moses, so unsettled its subject that he issued a rebuttal to Caro's many allegations. Despite objections, the book won a Pulitzer Prize. In The Path to Power, the 882-page...
...have given unmarried couples, even those of the same sex, many of the rights of married people. Landlords and tenant groups are both critical of her housing policies. Says Feinstein: "You can get people to sign a petition for an overhead sewer line on Market Street." The recall, wrote Journalist Warren Hinckle in the Los Angeles Times, "has reinforced San Francisco's reputation as a tree house for adult delinquents...
Until now, the Japanese industrial rise has been depicted largely in terms of a work force that labors with an almost cultish devotion to the common economic good. That was before a Japanese journalist named Satoshi Kamata went to work on a Toyota assembly line and kept a diary. The brutal conditions he describes in Japan in the Passing Lane (Pantheon; 211 pages; $14.95) seem like something from a Charles Dickens novel...