Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WICKER...
...Wicker's career soared on such turbulence. As a correspondent for the New York Times, he distinguished himself in Dallas on Nov. 22,1963. As a liberal Southerner from Hamlet, N.C., he brought a blend of hard perception and raw emotion to the coverage of civil rights. He was also a workmanlike but disappointed novelist. When he became the Times's Washington bureau chief and later took over the retired Arthur Krock's "In the Nation" column it appeared that Wicker's metamorphosis into a gentleman-journalist was complete...
...Wicker does not seem to wear his prestige and rewards comfortably. He notes that he lives in a large house and is "affluent beyond his sense of decency." He guiltily admits that he is "a dissident, not a revolutionary." Up to a point, he might even agree with Gay Talese's conclusion in The Kingdom and the Power-that Wicker "became caught up in the current of journalism, the daily opiate of the restless...
...Wicker tried to convince Rockefeller to come to Attica, so that he could see the awful chances for bloodshed. But the governor refused to come and refused to give the observers more time. Wicker says the "order of things" was more important to the governor than lives...
...Wicker has ot disinterred the bones. No one can do that. He only promised us a "time for anger," and four and a half years after Attica, his book screams quietly--a stark gravestone rubbing to remind us of the grave and what is buried there, lest we forget...