Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was some stiltedness (does Schlesinger actually pontificate so?) and show boating (TV Journalist Hodding Carter, who played a senior adviser, may be too well-trained), but such behavior is not unknown at NSC meetings. In all, The Crisis Game, with its snare-drum theme, was just hokey enough to entertain and good enough to edify...
...Naipaul. The Trinidad-raised, Oxford-educated novelist who has won just about every major literary prize in Britain and is a perennial contender for the Nobel. Naipaul, the chronicler of the Third World, is on assignment for the London Sunday Times. He and Thompson are unlikely friends. The gonzo journalist is quirky, boisterous, happiest when surrounded by cronies in the hotel bar; the gentleman writer is quiet, refined, more comfortable at afternoon tea. But careering around the island, chasing slender threads of news, they seem a matched pair. "It's like having a third eye," Thompson says...
This sort of thing is catching: Adler's punctuation defines, enhances and, above all, charms, in the old, musical, intransitive form of the verb. As a journalist and novelist, she has sought a coherent melody in the dissonances and sprung rhythms of her times. Her collection of essays Toward a Radical Middle (1970) presented a critical intelligence unde-flected by the push and bombast of public events. At a noisy period in the country's history, Adler firmly registered the difficulty, high cost and fragility of progress, or, as she put it, "how much has been gained...
...book's roster of guests shows that Lowell has made ample use of its funds. The list includes Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, gourmet cook Julia Child, columnist Ellen Goodman, journalist Oriana Fallacci, songwriter and comedian Tom Lehrer '47, the late Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and actors Burt Reynbolds and Robert Redford...
...also many other things: an astute critic of literature and popular culture, a journalist who turned political writing into an art form, the finest English essayist of his century. Those who know of him only as a grand bogey, a synonym for some terror that may go bump in the Western night, hardly know him at all. He made it his business to tell the truth at a time when many contemporaries believed that history had ordained the lie. Yet the very name that is now so often invoked, vaguely and in vain, is a fiction...