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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FORTUNE was started by Luce in 1930, at the beginning of the Depression. In its early years, it was a hotbed of contentious comment. "We made the discovery," said Luce, "that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers." One of the major contributors to FORTUNE was a poet, Archibald MacLeish. "My essential education as an American began on FORTUNE," he said later. The magazine subjected U.S. business to the kind of critical scrutiny it had never undergone before. FORTUNE tended to be liberal; TIME was widely suspected of being rightist. TIME, indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A PARTICULAR KIND OF JOURNALISM | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Spokesmen read messages of support from Presidential candidate Dick Gregory, who was planning to visit the sanctuary last night, and poet Robert Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWOL Soldier's Third Day of Sanctuary Sparks M.I.T. Student-Faculty Support | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...American poet Elizabeth Bishop will beg iving a reading of her works at 4:30 p.m. today at 2 Divinity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Reading | 10/30/1968 | See Source »

...question. I do not admit guilt, but have I any regrets? To some extent, I do. I regret very deeply the fact that with me on this bench is a young man whose personality is still unformed. I am speaking of [Vadim] Delone [a 21-year-old student and poet sentenced to 34 months at hard labor], whose character may be crippled by being sent to a prison camp. I regret, too, that the gifted, honest scholar [Konstantin] Babitsky [a 32-year-old Moscow philologist, who was banished for three years] will be torn away from his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Protest on Trial | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...first Japanese ever to win the literary award and the first Asian to be so honored since 1913, when the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore was selected. Kawabata, 69, stepped into the limelight calmly. "I feel I am very lucky," he told the caller who brought the news. "It is a great honor." Later, he showed concern that "too great a fuss" might be made. "For authors," he said, "honors can some times become unbearable burdens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Spiritual Bridge | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

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