Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among them was Mayo Mohs, a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles who does a good deal of reporting for us on the West Coast and whose own eloquent commentary on the single's problem is quoted in the Essay. As for reporting on the single life, he found that "it is a bit like reporting China-you can't believe everything you hear, and not even a lot of what you see. You gather most of your material by indirection-by looking, listening, being part of-rather than by asking." Sometimes, when he asked, the source...
...greatest pressure on the singles is the classic one-loneliness. In prosaic terms, this is coming back to an apartment where the breakfast dishes are still unwashed, the morning paper exactly where it was dropped, where nothing has moved. Mayo Mohs, a freelance journalist still single at 33, puts the unmarried's problem in a frame of reference that is more romantic and more telling: "The lack a single person feels most acutely is when he leaves his group to go off somewhere on a trip, one of those trips that his single status lets him enjoy...
Freelance. The word derives from footloose knights willing to defend any castle for a fee, and it still rings romantically. Today's deskbound journalist dreams of breaking the shackles, telling off the boss, and striking out on his own. He will decide what to write, how to write it and when to write it. Freed from the confines of a newspaper or magazine, he will fulfill the creativity he has so long suppressed as an organization...
Looking Up. In 1954 Jean Marin, a journalist and radio commentator, took over as A.F.P. general manager. Everyone looks up to Marin; he not only stands 6 ft. 31 in. tall, but by 1957 he had established a correspondent in Peking, freed the agency from official French control, and begun to woo the 150 subscribers in 60 countries that A.F.P. has since won. Marin, now 64, has expanded his team of correspondents and stringers by 100. They are free to enter and report from almost every nation in the world except Albania and Guinea...
...result was a drab series of social-realist novels with such command-economy titles as his 1935 potboiler. Without Stopping for Breath. Then Ehrenburg reported the Spanish Civil War for Izvestia in vivid prose that made him Russia's leading journalist...