Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...century's most prolific and widely read journalist, Lippmann consorted with the heroes of American mythology from Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson to John F. Kennedy '40. While his personal advice and machinations influenced the course of the century, Lippmann's life and work signify the success of its pragmatic spiritualism in tackling both human and scientific problems...
Steel intersperses narrative with Lippmann's articles and opinions through the onset of the Depression and Roosevelt's rise. Sometimes the journalist remained on the sidelines and patiently observed. But, more often--as in the late '20s when Lippmann and Ambassador Dwight Morrow mediated a dispute between American oil companies, the Catholic Church and a hostile Mexican government--Steel finds the journalist in the thick of the action...
...year-old journalist, short-story writer, and novelist is known for his simple, clear style and his existential themes. His most famous novels are "The Woman of Rome" and "The Time of Indifference." Moravia is also the author of over 1000 film and book reviews...
...tragedy was compounded by the chaos of the first rescue efforts. "People were fighting for a chance to dig out the survivors," said a Danish journalist. As more help arrived from 30 countries, bringing some $1.5 million worth of aid and equipment, rescuers were often at cross-purposes. Swiss and French avalanche dogs, trained to sniff out buried bodies, were thrown off the scent by powerful disinfectants that were sprayed on buildings to keep decaying bodies from spreading disease. French microphonic devices, flown in to monitor buildings for faint sounds of breathing, were useless in the din of bulldozers...
...last week, the Mary and Bill story had rated coverage in practically every major newspaper and magazine, several sober editorials, a FORTUNE cover and, the crowning touch, a gossipy, five-part series sold to some 50 newspapers by the Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate. Written by New Journalist Gail Sheehy (Passages), the series unblushingly depicts Cunningham as an angel, awesomely gifted, scrupulously moral and out to improve the world through humane capitalism; it is laced with enough mawkish prose and gratuitous personal detail to make Harold Robbins blush. As the scandal mounted, for instance, Sheehy reported: "Mary Cunningham...