Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radicals who predict the disappearance of today's institutional Christianity do so with great equanimity. "I cannot imagine a more enjoyable time to be a Christian," says British Journalist Monica Furlong, herself a convinced Anglican radical. "For while the holocaust is sweeping away much that is beautiful and all that is safe and comfortable and unquestioned, it is relieving us of mounds of Christian bric-a-brac, and the liberation is unspeakable...
...decades since the war ended, there has not been in English a complete history, in both military and human terms, of Russia's remarkable role. Author Alexander Werth is uniquely qualified to make the attempt. He is an English journalist who was born and raised in St. Petersburg and is perfectly bilingual. He spent all but a few months of the war actually in Russia. As a sympathetic left-wing nonCommunist, he was given unusual freedom of travel. He was one of the only two Western journalists allowed into Leningrad during the siege. He kept...
Questions & Exonerations. Worse are the omissions and persistent seeming biases. In his account of Russian unpreparedness for war, Werth does not mention that the Soviets received a clear and correct warning of Hitler's timetable from their trusted agent in Japan, the German journalist Richard Sorge. He gives no more than a sentence to the three-to-four-week delay of the attack on Russia that was caused by Yugoslav and Greek resistance in the spring of 1941, although that delay may well have been the most important single factor in the German failure (by 15 miles and some...
...school-assigned essays to a classmate for $4. Gordonstoun's Headmaster Robert Chew says there is "absolutely no truth" to the report. But the classmate did get the copybook and sold it for $20 to a Gordonstoun alumnus who did even better by selling it to an Aberdeen journalist for $280, who then joined forces with a press-agent named Terence Smith...
...think it is clear," said John Hay Whitney, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune and former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, "that though I have worked at journalism, I am here primarily because I am a millionaire." But it was as a journalist that "Jock" Whitney had been invited to Colby College, in Waterville, Me., to accept Colby's honorary Elijah Lovejoy fellowship.* And it was very much as a journalist-and publisher-that Whitney spoke...