Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade ago, however, De Lorean seemed exotic. His high profile, in all of its manifestations, rankled some straitlaced executive colleagues. Others simply wearied of his professional swagger. "When John was at General Motors, people either loved him or they hated him," says J. Patrick Wright, a business journalist who wrote De Lorean's 1979 memoir, On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors. According to the book, De Lorean's febrile management style, impolitic brilliance and impatience with bureaucracy worked against him. In a chapter called "How Moral Men Make Immoral Decisions," De Lorean makes much...
Woods, a well-known radio and TV journalist before becoming a state senator from the St. Louis suburb of University City, last year upset the favored primary candidate of old-line Democrats. Playing up her criticism of Reaganomics, she has sought to picture Danforth, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, as an accomplice to the 10.1% unemployment rate. Woods vigorously supports increased aid to the elderly, legalized abortion and the ERA. Although her candidacy has been a magnet for women's groups from all over the country, she has raised only some $750,000 so far, not enough...
...singled out for special brutality,Kolbe shared his meager food rations and spent much of his time comforting others. Some survivors said it was Kolbe's counsel that inspired them to go on living. For a new biography of Kolbe, A Man for Others (Harper & Row; $12.95), California Journalist Patricia Treece interviewed Sigmund Gorson, a TV personality in Wilmington, Del., and the only Jewish survivor of Auschwitz who knew Kolbe. Gorson, then a 13-year-old orphan, recalls: "He used to wipe away my tears. Because of the death of my parents, I had been asking, 'Where...
Freelance writing, like literary work, is very shaky at first, a Boston-area journalist warned. Susan Quinn, who has done psychoanalytic pieces for Atlantic Monthly and Esquire, expressed the frustration involved. "You are always having to make a pitch, selling your always having to make a pitch, selling your wares." She added that "heads roll, people get fired, and everything changes--suddenly a job that you were very comfortable in is gone...
Another common subject raised in the two-hour session was the unpleasantness often involved with a career in writing. Brewster observed that "successful marriages are rare." Bradley said that a recent survey found that the average starting salary for a Journalist or a writer is $4,000 a year...