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...Newsweek had backed away from purchasing North American rights to them. TIME inspected the diaries and turned them down, primarily because there was insufficient time to conduct its own investigation into their authenticity. A subheadline on Newsweek's cover asked ARE THEY GENUINE? and the magazine devoted several paragraphs of its story to quoting disbelievers. In advertising for the story in 30-sec. television commercials in twelve cities, however, Newsweek omitted that cautionary line entirely. In full-page ads in six major U.S. newspapers, any doubts the magazine may have had were limited to a question buried...
...Writing and Editing. This includes colorful writing that buries the news in the sixth paragraph. As a colleague of Jones' puts it, if a nuclear accident hit an American city, some writer would begin his story: "Yesterday, Mrs. Minnie Johnson, 72, could not find her little black and gray kitten, Mittens...
...history (and I hope it is not provocative to say that I think of history as an art, not a science). In writing I am seduced by the sound of words and by the interaction of their sound and sense. Recently at the start of a paragraph I wrote, "Then occurred the intervention which irretrievably bent the twig of events." It was intended as a kind of signal to the reader. (Every now and then in a historical narrative, after one has been explaining a rather complicated background, one feels the need of waving a small red flag that says...
...Your paragraph on the arson question requires some clarification and correction. Anxiety-neurosis is characterized by both phobias and fetishes and sometimes by an oscillation between depression and mania: The so-called "danger junkie" syndrome (often associated with combatneurosis) is a classic instance of the relief of chronic depression through repeated self-stimulation of an adrenalin "rush. "Pyromania is a special case of this adrenalin autoaddiction. Until the discovery that amphetamine is addictive there remained some question about adrenalin, but it now appears that anything that can give temporary (symptomatic) relief can be addictive. The relief cannabis provides from anxiety...
...Bisharat also seems confused on the subject of Israel's justification for the war in Lebanon last summer. His single valid point in a four paragraph tirade is that there were no terrorist attacks on Israel by the PLO cadres entrenched in Lebanon between July, 1981 and the beginning of the war. But does this necessarily make Israel's advance to Beirut an unjustifiable act of aggression? I think...