Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is the story of a woman journalist imbued with parental ideals of the "perfect marriage" with a Prince Charming, of a woman who grows to realize that such false expectations breed only hurt and anger. Suffering the conflict between living her own life and playing the role her mother has outlined for her, Braudy feels simultaneously selfish and guilty, angry and deceptive. Explaining her discordant emotions, she writes "We are becoming more equal, and as an emerging equal, I displease him. Feeling his resentment, I'm angry, yet I worry that I am hogging the spotlight in an unwifely...
Braudy's honesty ensnares the reader's confidence, and her unadorned description of her sexual affairs and emotional contortions accomplishes her goal--the reader trusts her. In her role as journalist, Braudy feels she can enter someone's life only through trust. And in successfully winning the reader's confidence, she makes her argument that nobody is alone in this world seem convincing...
THAT MAN, according to Lewis, is American journalist Morton Fullerton, whose relationship with Wharton is detailed in by far the most fascinating section of the biography. Lewis makes use of some almost painfully revealing source material on their affair, including the private diary Wharton addressed to Fullerton and the love poems he inspired her to write, as well as correspondence from his jealous cousin and fiancee, Katherine Fullerton. Skillfully integrating the poems and journal entries with his text, Lewis illumines both the depth and power of Wharton's feelings for Fullerton and her yearning to escape the solitude that afflicted...
...your interview with Journalist Oriana Fallaci [Oct. 20], I was shocked that she referred to me as a "dishonest woman journalist" because I once wrote that she had had three miscarriages. And I was even more shocked that TIME would print such a scurrilous remark...
Still, no journalist has treated the four days of the Mayaguez with such attention to personal and military detail. His facts, speedily and scrupulously assembled, make a strong, if arguable case for the American response. To Rowan, amid all the ambivalent U.S. op erations overseas, the recovery of the Mayaguez now appears to be an odd but valid entry in the saga of victory...