Word: journalisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than four decades he has been one of the foremost journalists in the world. In China during World War II and the Communist upheaval of the 1940s, he survived an early baptism of fire as a combat correspondent. In the U.S. he covered six presidential elections and fashioned his impressions into the extraordinary The Making of the President series. But two years ago, at 61, Theodore H. White had nagging doubts about his work. He felt he should have grappled with the deeper meanings of all he had seen and reported, the groundswells of history that changed the world...
...when a man named John Hersey, a promising writer for the magazine, signed him up as a China stringer. The new reporter soon discovered that he had an unexpected fan. Henry R. Luce, TIME cofounder, had been born in China and took a special interest in the young journalist's stories. Eventually, in 1945, the two men broke over the issue of China. Luce continued to believe that Chiang Kai-shek was a great man and the right leader for his country, while White became increasingly critical of the Nationalist regime and convinced that the Communists were bound...
...sure? As an experienced journalist who has contributed to The New Yorker for more than 50 years, Hahn balances her enthusiasms for the unknown with a reverence for facts and, when necessary, the lack of them. "Though total silence still holds between the two species," she writes of chimps and men, "the linguistic exchanges now happening will serve to underscore the close biological relationship between the two." Still, like the upwardly mobile chimp who thought she was human, there are humans who seem more willing to believe in the possibility of communication with superior extraterrestrials than in a probability...
Fame improves some people. Except for certain saints and others with inner resources, there is nothing ennobling about obscurity. Watergate transformed Carl Bernstein from a cigarette-scrounging city-room fixture and superannuated punk into a superb journalist who carries his fame with a self-assured but quizzical grace. Rosalynn Carter has flourished in the public gaze...
...Journalist Bill Buckley likes it out in the cold, out where the Red menace blows. Novelist Buckley finds the world more ambiguous. His new espionage thriller stars the Buckley-like hero Blackford Oakes. He is the same CIA man of the author's previous novel, Saving the Queen. The time of Stained Glass is 1952, the place West Germany; the plot backlights Buckley's faith in Western culture and his embattled vision of its decline in an age of nuclear realism and détente...