Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From traveling secretary of baseball's Cincinnati Reds to reporter to Washington bureau chief to Journalist Statesman-in-Residence. And what does Reston search for? The meaning of the nation's 200th anniversary. Perhaps he thinks that America will find "dignity, simplicity, and unity" through some gala birthday party. It is a fruitless hope...
...beleaguered writer, as hundreds have done in the past. Only a dozen brave men could be found to speak up for him in Russia. Among these was Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. With a courage commensurate to Solzhenitsyn's, the physicist told a Swiss journalist that "the spiritual and moral impact of the facts revealed in Gulag will be enormous. Only by becoming conscious of the crimes perpetrated in the recent past can we hope to get out of this bloody circle. I am convinced that this work is of capital importance to our people...
...letter to Kennedy written just after the 1960 election, Schlesinger proposed Lippmann, a liberal journalist, for the post of U.S. ambassador to France...
...balanced and meticulously researched biography, Dublin-born journalist Brian Inglis traces the Sophoclean confluence of events and experiences that led Casement to fame, obloquy and the gallows as yet another martyr for Irish freedom. How high Casement rates in that mad hierarchy depends on how history will eventually assess the shadowed side of his nature. Casement was a rapacious homosexual, a fact that was never suspected until his arrest in 1916, when Scotland Yard seized his private papers. Its most notable find was the so-called "black diaries" which Casement supporters erroneously denounced as forgeries. The diaries document his obsession...
FitzGerald went to Vietnam as something I was not. She was a trained journalist, to whom history was important and she saw more than I or most Americans the abyss between what was told and what was happening. She felt early a responsibility to describe the illegitimacy of the American intervention...