Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karl, who is about 20 years older than his wife, the reasons for writing the book seem to have been more complex. For one thing, he was not just any starving free-lancer. He'd been a journalist since 1948 and had worked for Newsweek for 11 years, eventually becoming Los Angeles bureau chief. As he says himself, he "had a front-row seat on some of the most fantastic things that have happened." When the civil rights battles were raging in Selma, Birmingham and Oxford, he was there. When Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy...
...SIXTIES ARE DEAD AND GONE but no one is content. Whenever the subject seems buried for good, some writer, film director, musician, or journalist feels compelled to dig it up for further dissection. The corpse is now mutilated beyond recognition...
Indeed, for more than four years, some feminists have been waiting for The Book: Journalist Brownmiller's forthcoming study of rape. ("It's one of the two books I lay awake nights lusting after," said a woman editor in the Village Voice.) A week before publication, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Simon & Schuster; $10.95) is already a major event; it is the Book-of-the-Month Club selection for November, is being serialized in four national magazines and will be promoted on a nationwide tour. All this is likely to make Brownmiller the first rape celebrity...
...grateful to the Movement for giving me a channel, a constructive way to use my rage," says Susan Brownmiller, 40, a veteran journalist and one of the brightest and angriest of America's feminists...
Scarf does not look like someone who has had to struggle through the journalist's world. Although 43, she looks a decade younger. The aggressiveness one would imagine she needed to succeed as a writer seems not to have affected Scarf personally. The impression one gets when meeting her is that she has successfully retained her warmth and a sense of humor. Perhaps the best way to contrast her to other journalists is the contrast she herself saw at the first few Nieman fellow conferences. The other fellows continually shot questions to the speakers; they asked "tough questions and even...