Word: journalists
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Where no dreams appear to whet his analytical appetite, Edel proves to be a literary journalist of great skill. His chapter on Henry David Thoreau as Mamma's boy and great American freeloader is a model of concision and balance. So are his pieces on James Joyce as "injustice collector" and "unfinished genius," Tolstoy as a "prodigy of self-inhibitions" and "self-indulgence," Yeats as a hero of "creative aging," and T.S. Eliot as a successful battler against will-sapping depression...
...created a devious form of autobiography: they hitch their histories to their hits. The follow-ups are often more compelling than the blockbusters. The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions, for example, revealed a talented and sensitive Mario Puzo far more than it explored his Mafia megaseller. Texas Writer and Journalist Larry L. King extends this technique in his seventh and best book. At street level, he hilariously and venomously chronicles The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas-from 1974 Playboy magazine piece to Broadway smash to film-with country-boy cunning. But beyond the ribaldry and self-promotion lies a melancholy...
...that preparations were underway to topple Garcia. At the same time, the publisher of the Guatemalan newspaper La Nacion--who also happened to be Guevara's campaign manager--charged that a coup would take place after the elections. He added that a "foreign power" would direct the operation. The journalist, whose story was given little attention, was assassinated a few days later...
...only North American journalist allowed to remain south of Buenos Aires after military restrictions were placed on the southern coast, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter spent five days in Ushuaia (pop. 10,000), the world's southernmost town. There he encountered surprising warmth and civility from a people whose nation was at war. But all that ended on April 30, when the U.S. declared its support for Britain. McWhirter was ordered to leave for Buenos Aires on the first available flight. He describes his experience...
...custody. It was also an edgy and unpleasant experience. My bags were "searched" twice, that being the kindest term for the hostile way in which personal contents can be scornfully tossed, spilled and made to seem like bits of compromising evidence all their own. Why was a "distinguished" American journalist carrying a duffel bag? Why were his shirts rumpled? One army officer found a bottle of shampoo to be suspicious. Another officer confiscated an assortment of old notes, then asked me to number each page with a forwarding address. That was so I could not later claim anything had been...