Word: wars
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Still, journalism in America was a high-risk trade. Editors were always in danger of being challenged to duels or horsewhipped or beaten up by gangs. During the War of 1812, one antiwar newspaper was actually blasted by a mob with a cannon. On the frontier, tarring and feathering editors was a popular pastime. Symbolically, of course, it still is. The press, its reach almost infinitely expanded by electronics, has come a long way since those days. Yet, the public, despite its daily if not hourly intimacy with the press, does not really understand it very well. That lack...
...American press is better than ever. Yellow journalism persists, but largely on the fringes of the press and is pale compared with what it was in the heyday of William RandolphHearst. One episode: Drumming the U.S. to war against Spain, Hearst sent " Artist Frederic Remington to Cuba. When Remington cabled that all was quiet, with no war in sight, Hearst fired back: "You supply the pictures, I'll supply the war." Arrogance of such magnitude is unheard of today. The sensationalist Joseph Pulitzer declared that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but the fact...
Although tuberculosis killed D.H Lawrence, Dr. Ober is more concerned with the writer's psychosexual disorders. A sickly child and youth who was rejected for service in World War I, Lawrence probably doubted his masculinity. In his last years, illness-related impotence may have compounded this problem. Ober thinks that the novelist was a latent homosexual. He cites incriminating passages from The White Peacock and allusions in Lady Chatterley's Lover that Mellors did not limit himself to ordinary heterosexual acts with Lady C. The difficulty with such speculation is that the term latent covers a long...
...graven newsreel image of the Anschluss-the day that Hitler forcibly joined Austria to the Reich- is one of jubilation: jackbooted, goose-stepping infantry welcomed by cascades of flowers and the joyous peal of church bells'. Vienna-born Walter Maass, who specializes in wartime history (The Netherlands at War, Assassination in Vienna), strives to explain the complexities behind that event, and Austria's increasingly reluctant role during the seven years of Nazi rule (1938-45) that followed. Country Without a Name (Austria was absorbed into Germany as an assemblage of Nazi-run districts) is a bleak, sad story...
...with Germany, Austria's troubles after World War I stemmed from Versailles, specifically the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain that broke up the old Austro-Hungarian Empire of the Habsburgs and reduced the country to a small republic. A political standoff between Roman Catholic right and Socialist left hobbled the new democracy, bringing it several times to violence. Then the Great Depression hit. When Hitler came to power in 1933, more than 300,000 Austrians were unemployed in a nation of only 6 million. For a time, a doughty little home-grown dictator named Engelbert Dollfuss opposed Hitler...