Word: journalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd remains silent and expressionless. "The people we see are often too afraid to speak up," says Roberto Carpio, a Christian Democrat lawyer and journalist who is the vice-presidential candidate. "So they use their faces, their eyes and their hands. It's the language of the hands that's very important. It's a campaign of silence...
...with a dozen or so senior staffers in the State Department's seventh-floor conference room. It was with tight-lipped humor that Haig last week tried to deflect comment on the titillating, and unsettling, revelations. Referring to Kissinger's excessively candid 1972 interview with an Italian journalist, he said, "Well, Kissinger had Oriana Fallaci, and I have my loyal staff...
...vividly describing the struggles of seven Americans who chose to "speak the truth," Mitchell asks, "Why do some people feel compelled to right what they perceive as a wrong, while others, who have witnessed the same crime or abuses, turn away?" But while the author, a 35-year-old journalist, succeeds in depicting the pyretic victories of his seven warriors, he fails miserably to answer the larger, topical questions he presents as important...
...incarnation of The Dean's December is Albert Corde. A journalist by profession, he is an insider of the outside world--and for the last ten years a professor of journalism and dean of students at a Chicago college. The novel finds Corde far from home, stuck in a small apartment in Bucharest, waiting for his mother-in-law to die. Meditatively, he licks the wounds of recent Chicago battles--battles which rage unabated, awaiting his return. While ineptly ministering to the miseries of his emigre/astronomer ("Palomar calibre") wife. Minna (perhaps Bellow is losing his old feisttness: this protagonist...
...closely tied Corde had made it as a journalist while still very young, heading back to academe in mid-life to finish his "reading." Now he is recalled to the real world by a bad, even lethal state of affairs. A graduate student is murdered on a hot summer night in sordid circumstances and Corde has to identify the body. Shaken in a way he had not expected--"his feelings took him by surprise"--the Dean is moved to action...