Word: rosenblatt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Roger Rosenblatt...
...subject was a natural one for Rosenblatt, a onetime Washingtonian who admits to ambivalent feelings about the capital. Before coming to TIME in July, he lived in Washington for seven years, working as director of education for the National Endowment for the Humanities and, more recently, as literary editor of the New Republic and as a columnist for the Washington Post. In the summer of 1979, Washingtonian magazine named Rosenblatt the city's "best columnist." "I didn't always write about Washington," says Rosenblatt, "but you can't work as a journalist there without automatically becoming interested...
...native of New York, Rosenblatt wrote a profile of that city for TIME just before the Democratic National Convention there in August. But he found Washington "much harder to pin down." The main reason, says Rosenblatt, is that "unlike most American cities, Washington did not grow naturally - it was invented. It is the symbolic center of the country, a gathering point for politicians and powerbrokers and a place where people live...
...this week's story, which was illustrated by the well-known painter Paul Hogarth, Rosenblatt returned to his old D.C. haunts. For two full days he visited museums, monuments and neighborhoods in an effort "to get the city back in my eyes." Rosenblatt found our nation's capital as perplexing and contradictory as many Presidents have found it. Says he: "How can a city be at once so gracious and so ruthless...
...roger Rosenblatt...