Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baffling Travelers. A chronicle in which explorer after explorer vanishes into the jungle necessarily lacks the grand narrative sweep of Alan Moorehead's The White Nile and The Blue Nile. But Sanche de Gramont, an able journalist and popular historian (The French: Portrait of a People), has written a book, covering roughly the years 1790 to the present, with its own ironic fascination. At the outset, as was true of the Nile, no European knew the source of the Niger (in the mountains about 200 miles east of Sierra Leone). Its destination was also unknown. There were even disputes...
...John Bartlow Martin, a journalist who was an occasional Stevenson speechwriter, reveals another, more driven side to the Democratic standardbearer. He was, in fact, a practical politician who played the game as skillfully as the next man. His fastidious grumbling about the demands of politics was something of a pose. Martin suggests that the candidate deliberately contrived a diffident persona to appeal to the civic-minded, rather snobbish liberals who came to adore...
Stylistically, An American Family in Moscow has considerable problems. It is obvious that the father is the journalist in the family; his writing is far superior to the other's. The mother often uses awkward construction and sometimes misuses words ("the fulsome trees hide the drabness of the gray stone city sitting squat on its giant plain.") The younger children write clearly like children throughout the book. Although they complained to their mother years after the publishing about the immaturity of their prose in the book, their literary freshness is usually charming and always forgivable...
Self-Gratification. Fairlie, a British journalist who has lived for the past ten years in the U.S., can be severe and very rigid about America as a "spoiled child." Despite that tone, he is basically a classic liberal, worried about elitism and the decline of equal education and opportunity. His New World symphonette is delivered in elegant cadences. "The future of the world lies with America," Fairlie believes, and "it would be a tragedy if, in the rage that must be endured, America wearied of its own idea." Much of Fairlie's book is a rich and occasionally cranky...
...diplomatic reception, where he receives a bear hug and sympathy from Fidel, who cannot spare more attention than that. His time is consumed by a visiting dignitary from East Germany. If Rubbo were less tactfill and intelligent, Waiting for Fidel might just be the movie equivalent of the journalist's last refuge, the trusty How-I-Didn't-Get-the-Story story. What most interests Rubbo, however, are conversations at cross-purposes and dashed dreams. Waiting for Fidel is so successful on its own terms that, had the Premier ever showed up, he would probably have wrecked...