Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Surely, your delightful piece on John Kenneth Galbraith should have made note of the Galbraiths' tiny Negro maid, Emily, the only person who has ever put Ken down...
LIABILITY Collecting More Than the Maximum When a person buys liability insurance, the company agrees to pay dam age awards against him - but only up to the amount specified in his policy...
MAGAZINES First Person Singular Many editors have lately decided that magazine prose is too impersonal - that in a rather impersonal world, readers yearn for human voices and the pro noun "I." The result is a revival of personal journalism, typified in the current issues of Harper's and the Atlantic, each of which is almost entirely devoted to the work of one writer...
...Washington's Ambassador Theater at a rally before the Pentagon march began. Drunk he was, and he admits it. But the crisp account of Mailer's role in the events that followed is bathed in the harsh, dry light of hangover. Though he writes in the third person, no modesty is involved: his main character is Norman Mailer. He evokes the dilem ma imposed by the Viet Nam war on many American liberals: self-exiled from Lyndon Johnson's Democratic Party, they are forced to array their antiwar consciences in the same ranks as Communists, New Leftists...
...length or first-person narration doesn't ruin an Avatar article, lack of direction will. For example, just when we expect John Wilton (in "Avatar a Newspaper at Last") to define the paper's objects, he wanders off to explain why he got a haircut...