Word: journalist
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Lowell Thomas, 89, peripatetic journalist and pioneering broadcaster who wrote more than 50 books about his globetrotting experiences. His lecture tours and movie narrations, but mostly his 50 years as a radio newscaster, caused him, as he grandiloquently put it, to be "heard by more people than any voice in history...
Utilizing autobiographical elements, Feiffer performs major surgery on an American Jewish family. He draws blood and then salts the wounds. His hero, Jake (Bob Dishy), is a well-regarded journalist in early middle age with a secure post on the New York Times. He seems agreeably married to an attractive wife, Louise (Cheryl Giannini), and they have a perky seven-year-old daughter named Edie (Jennifer Dundas...
...never have been a Galileo of the social firmament, but as a journalist Vance Packard is clear-eyed enough to have seen, before anybody else, that the post-World War II U.S. had got caught up in a compulsive competition for status. The proof came in The Status Seekers (1959), a dissection of those Americans who, as the author put it, were "continually straining to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming." Since that happened to include just about the entire U.S. population, the great status game, once focused, provoked a great many fears that...
Some of the mercenaries who haunt the place use right-wing watchwords like "dignity," "honor" and "Western decadence." "They are disgusted with Western society and want to prevent the Soviets from taking possession of Africa," says the owner, a former mercenary. Adds a Belgian journalist who covers the mercenary beat: "They are often out of work, racist but not politically aware. They think that everything is the fault of the migrant workers. They are not very sharp intellectually, are fascinated by weapons and very much into the cult of strength, virility and male camaraderie." Eventually, the mercenary ethos becomes...
...private life, he has chosen Galya, 8, his only greatgrandchild. The Brezhnevs' children are Galina, about 50, once married to a circus animal trainer and now the wife of Yuri Churbanov, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs; Yuri, 48, a Deputy Foreign Trade Minister; and Mikhail, 44, a journalist of whom little is known. There are three grandchildren: Yuri's sons Leonid, 25, and Andrei, 20, and Galina's daughter Victoria (Galya's mother). Brezhnev seems to have spent little time with them. In a candid moment, he once talked about his relationship with...