Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House view was that nothing very drastic was happening. A Soviet diplomat in Europe asked an American journalist last week, "Is your President getting nervous?" The answer, simply, was no. Said one of Carter's close advisers: "He's trying to avoid being too concerned about whether the detente index is up point four or down point...
Died. Nat Dorfman, 81, journalist, playwright (Errant Lady, Take My Tip) and press agent who represented more than 300 Broadway shows; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Dorfman began working as a press agent in 1920, and later wrote a humorous column for the King Features Syndicate. Dorfman retired last January after 17 years with the New York City Opera...
...narrow specializations, Nabokov's genius was being able to see that "there is no science without fancy, and no art without facts." To his naturalist's eye, the world contained a profusion of odd juxtapositions, camouflages and artifices that concealed enchanting truths. A journalist who asked why the genitalia of male butterflies were hooked and serrated like instruments of torture received the following two-word answer: "High winds...
Died. Sue Kaufman, 50, journalist and author (Diary of a Mad Housewife Falling Bodies); in Manhattan. Diary, a novel that explored the vulnerabilities and frustrations of a sophisticated young couple trying to make it in Manhattan, was later a successful movie...
Sara (Author Davidson has made herself one of the central characters in her book) was a second-generation Californian, a freelance journalist who "wanted to be the Girl of the Sixties brand-new, streamlined, groovy daring upfront, telling it like it is. I also wanted to stop wearing a bra, but Jane and I worried that it would cause our breasts to droop...