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...enough time to dig out the real story not enough blacks and women in newsrooms, not enough pay for anybody, not enough coverage of such causes as ecology and Gay Liberation. The session on the new journalism turned into a mudslinging match between The New Yorker's Renata Adler, who condemned the genre as no more than "zippy prose about inconsequential people," and New York magazine's Tom Wolfe, who claimed Boswell and Dickens as editorial ancestors. "We are doing a more complete job of reporting," Wolfe insisted, "including people's thoughts...
...Liebling Counter-Convention, a journalism conference to end all journalism conferences. Among participants in the 14 panel discussions are Gay Talese. Tom Wolfe, Renata Adler, James Aronson, David Halberstam, Dick Schaap, J. Anthony Lukas, Nat Hentoff, Jack Anderson, Martin Nolan, Joe McGinniss, Charles Goodell, Studs Terkel, Jimmy Breslin, Murray Kempton, Pete Hamill, Nora Ephron, Blair Clark, Erwin Krasnow, Leonard Schecter, Jim Bouton, Charlotte Curtis, Gloria Steinem, Jack Newfield, I.F. Stone, and Seymour Hersh. Noon-8, April 23 and 10-8, April 24. Martin Luther King Labor Center, 310 W. 43 St., New York. Open to the public and free...
...Permit me to remind you that "this age of great sopranos" also includes Renata Tebaldi...
...Saul Alinsky suggests, anger in politics substitutes for all other games the game of "Kill the umpire!" Far right and far left, the angry man in politics prefers the pleasure of being furious to the pleasure of actually having an effect. Demanding final solutions only, he chooses, in Critic Renata Adler's words, "to use the vocabulary of total violence, cultivate scorched-earth madness as a form of consciousness (of courage, even), to call history...
...first-generation American born of a Sicilian father and a mother from Abruzzi. I have always been proud of Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Verdi, Rossini, Dante and Renata Tebaldi. I was not proud to learn that the very clever "spicy meataball" Alka-Seltzer commercial had been removed from television. I was at first amused, then appalled, finally embarrassed...