Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entered his senior year just one credit short of graduation and could have loafed. He didn't. "I like to catch the kids who are ahead of me," he says. He already has his lifetime vocational goals outlined. Successively, he hopes to be a professional basketball player, journalist, dancer, politician and actor. His intention, he says, is "to be a complete...
Editorials, continued an unflagging King, are even worse. "Could a real living journalist have assembled in his human mind such a collection of dim platitudes which lead so inexorably to a non-conclusion?" As for columnists, "I wonder if they would be so lavishly used if they were not dirt cheap; if it was not possible for an editor or a publisher to obtain for a song so much copy of such high respectability?" Many columnists "conceal an idea the size of a pea in a stack of dry straw. Does nobody discipline them? Does nobody make them rewrite...
JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND, by Amos Elon. An Israeli journalist visits the scenes of genocide and writes a thoughtful study of postwar Germany...
...contempt for Mayakovsky, Pasternak says that his work "was introduced by force, like potatoes under Catherine the Great." The liberal monthly Molodaya Gvardia recently attacked an even more sacrosanct Soviet idol, Maxim Gorky. It dismissed the author of The Lower Depths as nothing more than "a fairly good documentary journalist...
Fifty Months for Insults. Even more sternly, the government has increased the penalties for violation of the press law. In addition to being fined and suspended from his job, a journalist can now get a six-month prison sentence on several grounds, including lack of "respect due institutions and persons when criticizing political and administrative action." In particularly serious cases the sentence can go up to six years. Yet Spanish courts, displaying staunch independence, have not sent any writer to jail...