Word: scarfe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Maggie Scarf's life has fallen into place very neatly--a Nieman fellow and well-known free lancer, she has published articles regularly in The New York Times Magazine, and has published several books. Yet with all this behind her, Scarf does not attribute her journalistic fortunes solely to talent or luck. Rather, she feels they are a direct result of her "hanging in" ability, of her tenacity...
...Scarf does not look like someone who has had to struggle through the journalist's world. Although 43, she looks a decade younger. The aggressiveness one would imagine she needed to succeed as a writer seems not to have affected Scarf personally. The impression one gets when meeting her is that she has successfully retained her warmth and a sense of humor. Perhaps the best way to contrast her to other journalists is the contrast she herself saw at the first few Nieman fellow conferences. The other fellows continually shot questions to the speakers; they asked "tough questions and even...
...Although Scarf speaks as if her journalistic successes came about quite naturally, they did not. Tenacity, to a large extent, created her career. "I was an early drop-out. I finished three years of college and then got married and spent the next ten years trying to finish school. And when I was almost finished, we'd move," Scarf says with a shrug that indicates she feels no regret. After this ten-year long attempt to finish school, Scarf turned to writing children's books because of what she saw as a need for some sort of personal fulfillment...
...daughters there.) I did a program on mental health in a New Haven asylum where they were using a milieu therapy, which was totally new at the time. I thought it was a terrific program but the director didn't like it and it was never used." So Scarf received the asylum director's permission to write an article--even though she had written only one article before, for Yale Magazine--and subsequently spent three months in the asylum gathering information for her article, which as yet had no publisher...
Mary Lou Fackler--whose real name is America Lou--is a tall, slender blonde with long, straight hair, lots of blue eyeshadow and pink nails that match her pink jersey and the long, gauzy scarf around her neck. Like most of the transfer students I talked to, she says she applied to Radcliffe because of academics. "I always grew up with the idea that this was the best place," she says, a belief reinforced when she noticed that all the psychology textbooks she used at Ohio State University were written by Harvard professors...