Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS, by Theodore H. White. A fine political journalist turns to ancient history for an engaging study of "the way men use other men to reach their goals...
...farmers in The Axe, who are brutally herded into Communist collectives. Novelist Ladislav Mñačko, who went to Israel in protest against Novotný's repression last fall, writes in Delayed Reports about tortures and rigged trials that he has seen as a journalist. In his A Taste of Power, Mñačko describes an apparatchik whose character is twisted by power...
...Communists executed hundreds of civilians during their Tet offensive, but the slaughter was particularly marked in and around Hue, where estimates of those put to death range from 200 to 400. British Journalist Stewart Harris, who opposes U.S. policy in Viet Nam and declares . that "my instinct is not to sustain it by writing propaganda," recently visited Hue and vicinity to investigate the executions. Last week he reported his findings in the Times of London...
...wouldn't you know someone'd turn up and ruin it all? He's John Davidson, a singin' journalist-they're the wust kind-who finds the shiny-eyed eldest daughter (Lesley Ann Warren) to his likin'. Trouble is, the boy's a Ree-publican, and Democrat Grandpa finds him ree-voltin' Eventually Davidson talks the family into drivin' their folks' wagon on down to his home in Dakota, but that don't make no never mind. It's feudin' and fightin' soon's they...
...tragedy, as White correctly points out, was that with all his love of liberty and order, he could not trust himself to trust the people, and so attempted to twist the law into the vehicle for his ambition. This is the lesson that Journalist White appears to offer today's rulers. "When men are treated as God, they begin to feel they are God," says White. Absolute power, he suggests, does not merely corrupt; it invites paranoia. The real virtue of this crisp exercise is that it is put in terms that a historian can respect and even...