Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Princess, Lonsdale was gallantly U in his reply: "I think it would be rather rude if I said there was no possibility." Mum was not the word, however, for Queen Elizabeth's press secretary, Michael Shea, whose normally tight lips loosened at a banquet. According to a journalist who was present, he revealed that the family nickname for the Queen when she was bored or displeased was "Miss Piggyface." His indiscretion was so unwisely non-U that Shea might soon be persona non grata. It remained for the new Princess of Wales to set matters right. There...
...uninitiated, George V. Higgins is a Boston lawyer and sometime journalist who writes a terrific novel about Boston every year or so. About tough guys in Boston, that is. There may be, somewhere in the Hub area, a Higgins test range where the writer holds trials for admission to his casts of characters. Harvard degree? Reject Dukakis bumper sticker? So long, Faneuil Hall regular? Next Higgins's novels, you see, deal exclusively with a social set in this area that has neither the inclination nor the ability to be anything other than what it is--the royalty of a seedy...
Former President Richard M. Nixon's move to open relations with China was a ploy to continue an immoral war in Vietnam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh told a crowd of about 150 last night at the Kennedy School forum...
DIED. Louis Lyons, 84, distinguished newspaper journalist, radio essayist, director of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation and vigilant watchdog of the American press; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. Lyons became a first-rank reporter and editorial writer at the Boston Globe, and in 1938 he earned a place in the first group of Nieman fellows, who are chosen to spend a year away from their beats studying subjects of their choice at Harvard. One year later the genteel, pipe-smoking Bostonian became the Nieman's curator, and during the next 25 years made the fellowships the most eminent...
...catch-22. The common denominator is mistrust, misunderstanding. In Washington, the certainty prevails that the Soviets want world-wide communism and will stop at nothing to achieve it. In Moscow, the belief is widespread that the U.S. is aggressive and anti-communist to the point of war. As Soviet journalist Gennadi Gerassimov said on Nightline: "From our side it way always just a reaction to your side. You were first to have the bomb, first to explode it, first with the cruise missile ... We have been trying to play catch...