Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Goalies are too responsible to blame others in public or the press for their goals-against," says Bertagna. But within the cozy confines of the Society, it's open season, a time for fibs and tall tales. Above all, the contingent of shell-shocked ex-twineskeepers pat each other on the back. Says Fitzsimmons: "Everyone's a hero in the annals of the Society...
...though the romance crumbled and the Shah now enjoys what promises to be an extended vacation, the American press has presented nothing but the exotic--the strange--in the opposition to a man both the U.S. government and press has tried to maintain. American press coverage throughout the current crisis has reflected western cultural biases, and a belief that the United States could and should mold the political affairs of another nation--the most persistent moral and pragmatic error in U.S. foreign policy development...
...cultural bias appeared in subtle ways throughout the news columns of magazines and dailies. Islam and its prescriptions proved most difficult for editors to swallow. Particularly during the fall, press reports in this country regularly juxtaposed the image of a progressive, modernizing Shah with intransigent religious fanatics whose opposition to the Shah was based on medieval social concepts. The Islamic religion is so clearly alien as to arouse the fear of press writer and reader alike. References to the veils worn by women and Ayetollah Khomeini's orthodox beliefs reinforce this vision of difference, and hence, subtly, inferiority. Newsweek...
...Martin's Press; 210 pages...
THOUGHTS IN A DRY SEASON by Gerald Brenan Cambridge University Press 177 pages...