Word: journalistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombs, the hard-pressed peasants now have the leisure to reflect on their privations. As evidence, the monitors of Hanoi's newspapers and broadcasts report frequent condemnation of apathy and general slackness. There is also the tremendous death toll on the battlefield. In an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci, North Viet Nam's Defense Minister, Vo Nguyen Giap, was asked if the American claim that he had "lost a half a million men" was correct. "That's quite exact," answered Giap without batting...
...always hankered for his late father's seat on Capitol Hill. Perhaps, like many career politicians, he cannot abide private life. Or perhaps he wants to protect his party from the candidacy of Novelist Norman Mailer, who has been threatening to seek the nomination with Jimmy Breslin, journalist, author and character-about-town, as his running mate for city council president...
...bitch sans peur et sans reproche." Author Martha Gellhorn was No. 3-he wooed her during the Spanish Civil War and separated from her in World War II. She complained that he took too few baths-and besides, she had her own career as novelist and journalist to follow. Hemingway classified her with his mother, whom he condemned as "a domineering shrew." Baker appears to stand discreetly in awe of Mary Hemingway (called "Papa's Pocket Rubens" by her husband), who stood by him from...
...Solzhenitsyn's The Easter Procession [March 21]: I have read the piece in the original Russian and you have omitted the final three paragraphs. Omission of these lines for whatever reason deprives the reader of the point of the article and makes Solzhenitsyn appear to be merely a journalist rather than the visionary humanist that...
Maverick Lemming. But Vidal allows neither exhibitionism nor malice to keep him from his duties as journalist. Vidal did a flagrant hatchet job on the Kennedys; but he is also highly informative not only about the Kennedy family but about politicians in general and how they behave in the pursuit of power. He is wickedly funny about Henry Miller, who has rarely received a sharper or a fairer reading...