Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nasser, 46, Brazil's best-read and most-feared columnist. In a series of four articles in the big (circ. 425,000), slick O Cruzeiro magazine, Nasser laid into Brizola as "the beast of the Apocalypse," "an overfed revolutionary," "a Teddy boy of the pampas." "Saddened is the journalist who has the duty to dip his pen in your putrefied career and in your piffling figure...
Baron Munchausen was a grand character, but he was a fiction. Gaston Bullock Means, however, was for real. When he died at 59 in 1938, he was justifiably reckoned to be just about the most preposterous liar and swindler ever to smile at a sucker. In Spectacular Rogue, Author-Journalist Edwin Hoyt examines that certain smile with more journalistic competence than stylistic flair. Still, Gaston Means himself would be pleased...
...pressure to become a Red agent. But the Crown contended that Martelli was caught with shoes that had hollowed-out secret compartments in the heels and that his cigarette packages contained wafer-thin pads with secret codes and passwords. Finally, there was the case of Harold Adrian Russell Philby, journalist, ex-Foreign Office official, and boon companion of Communist Spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, whose reappearance in the news recalled the most notorious of Britain's sex-and-spy scandals...
...Bottle. A spirited if bewildering attempt by a young Indian writer to bring a gaggle of contemporary British thinkers into popular focus, the book leads to two almost inescapable conclusions. One: British philosophers are seldom intelligible even to one another. Two: Author Mehta, who calls himself an intellectual journalist and writes for the New Yorker, did well to devote some of his interviews to historians...
...journalist, Ved Mehta is not quite up to his own assignment. The most charitable view of his book is that it is a bit too successful in communicating to the reader the author's own state of quizzical bemusement as he plunges into a metaphysical brier patch...