Word: parajournalist
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Wolfe was most often criticized for his break neck style and for playing fast and loose with the facts. Dwight Mac Donald called him a "parajournalist." But none of it seemed to be getting to Wolfe, who kept on churning it out, kept getting more outrageous, didn't seem to care...
...there in the land of Midcult, My Not-So-Dear Editor, who should be warned against Marshall McLuhan (compared to whom "Spengler is cautious and Toynbee positively pedantic"). Buckminster Fuller (whose prose reads like Archie the cockroach with his capital shift working). And of course Tom Wolfe-"Parajournalist!" -who presumed to attack The New Yorker, the Golden Arches Macdonald calls home. Could a Macdonald enemies list be complete without those sparring partners Cozzens (James Gould) and Cousins (Norman), the author of By Love Possessed who was by Macdonald savaged and the editor of Saturday Review/World? (When Macdonald called Cousins...
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