Word: journalisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised if you would rather not have known what you wrote about. In 1966 Josh Greenfeld, novelist, playwright and screenwriter (Harry and Tonto), and his Japanese-born wife Foumi had their second child. They named the infant Noah. At the time, Greenfeld was attracting attention as a resolutely independent journalist, and a critic with a nose for new talent and a style that cut effortlessly through literary baloney. Foumi was cultivating her own career as a painter, and together the Greenfelds looked forward to lives rich in individual achievements and family pleasures...
...bent on saving the Vietnamese for Democracy--by strategically wiping them out--and took as his bible the cold-warring treatises of an Ivy League academic named York Harding (Walt Rostow? Probably; it was too early for Sam Huntington.) Next to Pyle, the weary aloofness of the British journalist, Fowler, seemed almost noble. And next to what we know came of all that idealistic American sabre-rattling, Fowler's final decision to help the Viet Minh murder Pyle appears nothing less than heroic...
...came from an Israeli police source. When he heard the news, TIME'S David Halevy rushed from his home outside Tel Aviv and reached the scene of action before the bus captured by Palestinian terrorists burst into flames. The first journalist to arrive, Halevy got an eyewitness account of the battle with the terrorists that provoked last week's crisis in the Middle East...
Midge Decter, author and journalist, on our "massive national hypochondria. We think of nothing so much as what we put into our mouths...
Mangalam Srinivasan is a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs. She is a consultant to international organizations on international development planning, and a freelance journalist...