Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winston Churchill once said, 'There is no such thing as public opinion; there is only published opinion." If the remark is right rather than merely clever, then the press has a lot to do with whose opinion gets heard. In a way, it does. The press spends much of its time badgering one set of people (politicians, coaches, businessmen) who may at the moment be reluctant to comment, and the rest of the time fending off others (politicians, performers, promoters) all too eager to draw attention to themselves. Those avoiding the press, or avoided by the press...
...been liberated by the Red Army. Coined in 1946 by Herbert Bayard Swope, a journalist and sometime speechwriter for Philanthropist Bernard Baruch, the term cold war became synonymous with the tensions of the post-World War II era. During a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., in 1946, Winston Churchill provided another image for the new age. "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic," he said, "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...
...Last Lion by William Manchester. One award-winning biographer's highly charged, worshipful narrative of Winston Spencer Churchill's spectacular rise as soldier, author and politician...
...young Bojangles Robinson, but it is really A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in blackface and with the priorities reversed. Its subject is the aspirations and frustrations of the black middle class. Daddy (Samuel E. Wright) is a successful lawyer, living in a Manhattan duplex with his wife Ginnie (Hattie Winston), their 13-year-old daughter Emma (Marline Allard) and their ten-year-old son Willie (Alfonso Ribeiro). Emma wants to be an attorney; Willie just gotta dance, under the eager tutorial eye of his raffish uncle Dipsey (Hinton Battle). If Dad is willing to indulge Emma's career goal...
...Journalists show a superficial callousness about tragedy. You want to write sincerely about the down and out, yet your professional side exults at each new horror story you discover because if 'll make good story," says Bernstein. "I can remember being appalled that my father was hoping Winston Churchill would die [at a convenient press-run time] to put him on the cover of Newsweek...