Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slips before he finally sold his first piece to This Week, a syndicated Sunday supplement. Before long he was known as "the cook who writes," and by the time he retired from the Coast Guard in 1959 at the age of 37, he had attained the rank of chief journalist. Though he had served for 20 years, he received no pension checks?those went to one of his two former wives...
...while teaching at California's Fuller Theological Seminary, when he wrote The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. It became the rallying point for the "New Evangelicals," who wanted to embrace orthodox doctrine while rejecting Fundamentalist excesses. From 1956 to 1968, Henry was Evangelicalism's foremost journalist and strategist, as the founding editor of Christianity Today. Since leaving the journal after a complex dispute with its board, Henry has become a freelance theologian based in Arlington, Va., and is currently the "lecturer at large" with World Vision...
...Wind to Shake the World is neither great literature nor incisive social commentary. Allen is a journalist, not a novelist, and his style makes this obvious. His prose moves fitfully at best, is downright turgid at worst, and is obviously better suited to the front page of a New England town newspaper than the inside of a classy $10 hard-back. Always the reporter, he is long on detail and short on interpretation. An endless stream of names, places, death tolls and other gruesome details flashes past, making the book itself a hurricane of facts that often leaves the reader...
Died. George Nauman Shuster, 82, Roman Catholic journalist-educator and president of New York City's Hunter College (1940-60); in South Bend, Ind. In 1951, Dr. Shuster admitted men for the first time as regular students to Hunter, once the world's largest public college for women. He wore many hats, editing the progressive Catholic weekly Commonweal for twelve years, working for UNESCO, which he helped create, and teaching English at Notre Dame, where he spent the last decade of his career as an in-residence savant and special assistant to the president...
...voyage from Africa aboard a slaver, whippings, rapes and even the hatcheting of Kunta Kinte's foot. For many black viewers, Roots succeeded in putting flesh on the bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little Rock Teacher Charles Pruitt: "The black kids resent what has happened and say, 'They couldn't do it to me like that,' but the white kids...