Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVEN, Conn.--More than 30 students held a silent vigil at Yale last week to protest the presence of Political Union (PU) speaker Ghassan Bishara, a Palestinian journalist and supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization...
Atwood's air of unflappability is exactly what one would expect from the assured, seamless flow of her prove and poetry. On one level her protagonists--especially Rennie Wilford, the young "life styles" journalist central to Bodily Harm--are smooth and sophisticated, gliding productively through life. It is this apparent power, most likely, that prompts so many feminists to claim her work as the ideological property of the women's movement, a tendency which leads naturally to the temptation to dismiss her male supporting characters as evil insensitive foils for the struggling females. The temptation is false, through: Atwood...
...with frustration, anger and sadness that I read of the dangers facing the press in El Salvador [March 29]. We must not forget one young American journalist, John Sullivan, who went to that country in December 1980 to report. He has not been seen or heard from since. But his life will not have been in vain if his colleagues can help to bring an end to the Salvadoran conflict by exposing the situation to public opinion. I am the sister of that courageous young man, and I still wait for his return...
DIED. Helen Lawrenson, 74, saucy, acerbic journalist and memoirist (Stranger at the Party; Whistling Girl), best known for her notorious 1936 article in Esquire magazine, "Latins Are Lousy Lovers"; of an apparent heart attack; in New York City...
There is a touch of bravado fantasy in these defiant acts, as there is when a white woman journalist solicits sex in exchange for a favorable story. Such a thing is possible, but not likely to occur in the heavyhanded, abject way depicted in the book...