Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Journalist Nathan's most effective weapon was not a butcher's knife but a stylist's stiletto. With malice toward some, he dubbed Noel Coward's Design for Living "a pansy paraphrase of Candida"; dismissed T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party as "bosh, sprinkled with mystic cologne." Maxwell Anderson, jeered Nathan, "enjoys all the attributes of a profound thinker save profundity." Nor did Nathan spare his fellow critics: Said he: "Impersonal criticism is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful. Show me a critic without prejudices...
Drawing the Maps. Gunther as a book-journalist lacks the originality and profundity of Rebecca (Meaning of Treason) West, the stylistic graces of Negley (Way of a Transgressor) Farson, John (Hiroshima) Hersey or Vincent (Personal History) Sheean. Yet none matches him for sheer scope, reportorial zest, or, most notably, the gift of popularizing remote places and difficult subjects. Says Critic Clifton Fadiman: "Gunther is a born teacher; he doesn't miss a fact-trick. His books are almost too easy to read; because of that, they seem superficial. But he's taught us a hell...
...Crossed." What does Gunther believe in? "I believe," says he, "in myself-with fingers crossed." Puffing thoughtfully on his ever-present Marlboro, Gunther adds: "I have no deep, institutionalized religious beliefs. I believe in the fact." On looking inside Gunther-despite his deep faith in his prowess as a journalist-Gunther finds: "I'm terribly limited. I completely lack intensity of soul. I'm not original. I'm really only a competent observer who works terribly hard at doing a job well...
Novelist Reid is a Jamaican journalist; his only other novel. New Day, reflected the color and sensuousness of his native Caribbean island. What he has tried for in The Leopard is more than a look into a Mau Mau mind. It is no less than an effort to glimpse the African soul suffering between felt injustice and the dim knowledge that the white man's impact has ended once and for all the chance of returning to the Eden of primitive ignorance and tribal pride that existed before he came...
...second issue of a modest quarterly named Space Journal is selling like cheesecake. As an unofficial byproduct of the Jupiter-designing experts at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville, Ala., the magazine treats its out-of-this-world subject in down-to-earth language. Says one Space Journalist : "The American people have a hunger for space information, and we're going to keep them well...