Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house. At dinner, Charlotte and Pierre go through domestic cliches for the newsman's benefit: the cute house, the nice neighborhood, the exceptional TV set. Afterwards everyone has a monologue−Pierre on the importance of memory, Charlotte on the importance of living in the present, the journalist on the importance of intelligence. Then Charlotte and Pierre go to bed and run through the predictably tedious anatomical rituals and the same signals across space...
...recent installments in Life of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s A Thousand Days raise some difficult problems for the journalist or historian who serves for a short time in government, and then decides to describe his experiences and insights for the historical record. These problems are more in the realm of taste and judgment than national security, in an area, that is, whose limits are not easy to define. Where, for example, is the historian to draw the line in his use of informal remarks made to him by high officials on the basis of a personal relationship...
...dilemma of a magazine that simply couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a liberal government's House-organ or a conservative administration's shrill and ineffectual opponent. There's a fine chapter on Colonel House himself, the intellectual pimp of Wilsonian progressivism, and his relations with the journalist Lincoln Colcord. Lincoin Steffens is taken to pieces for walking into his "scientific" study of corruption with pretty clear notions of what he was going to find, then kindly put back together again for the, "humility" he apparently evinced at the end of his life after his conversion to Communism...
Saffir concocted the idea of the paper over a drink at a United Nations cocktail party, where he met the Latin American journalist Jorge Losada, who is now the Times's editor in chief. After 13 years as editor of the Spanish-language Latin American newsmagazine Visión, Losada was convinced that U.S. businessmen, with roughly $10 billion in investments in Latin America, were hungry for more news from the land where their money is. And Saffir, a longtime I.N.S. foreign correspondent, who had brought out the highly profitable New York Standard during the 1963 newspaper strike...
...faculty members at New England colleges are scheduled to speak, along with three students, the head of Massachusetts Political Action for Peace, novelist Norman Mailer and journalist I.F. Stone...