Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEST TIMES, by John Dos Passos. An informal memoir, which also manages to be a typically understated and modest autobiography by a novelist who is not so much a historian as a journalist...
...should go to a university or not. Most people nowadays seem to prefer an educated monarch, but some feel that too much learning is dangerous for a ruler whose job, after all, is not to rule. Recalling that Elizabeth II was poorly educated when she came to the throne, Journalist Iain Hamilton observes: "She was good on a horse, though; and we have Ben Jonson's word for it that princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship." As for Charles, it would be wrong to encourage him to be "an 'ordinary' upper-class young...
Eyewitness- North Viet Nam is a 43-minute documentary that offers Western moviegoers a rare glimpse of North Viet Nam. Directed and narrated by James Cameron, a left-wing British journalist who last year published a blandly tendentious report about his brief visit to Hanoi and environs, Eyewitness is a loose collection of such random unrevelatory footage as Cameron's cameramen were permitted to expose...
...state was then legally dry. Liquor could be dispensed only for "medical, scientific and mechanical" purposes-an injunction liberally interpreted by the cafes, drugstores and Blind Tigers of the time. After remarrying a kind of jack-of-all professions named David Nation, who was occasionally a lawyer, doctor, journalist and innkeeper and chronically a failure, Carry went on the warpath. Commencing in the town of Medicine Lodge, Carry's hatchet proceeded to enforce the letter of the law wherever she found Hawkeyes slaking their thirst. It was her habit to spend the eve of battle walking around...
...idiom of the times. The spy novel, once devoted to the exploitation of intrigue and suspense, is more and more becoming a vehicle by which serious writers explore the wretched state of man and the cruelty of the human heart. In this bitter, brilliantly drawn book, Abraham Rothberg, historian, journalist and teacher, adopts an espionage mission as the framework for probing the holocaust that enveloped European Jewry after Hitler's rise to power...