Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alan Barth, editorial writer for the Washington Post, emphasized this point the most. He said, "An editorial writer is first a reporter who knows how to read as well as listen and second, one who wants to improve the community of which he is a part. Starting as a reporter will keep an editorial writer from living in an ivory tower...
...speakers, including Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation, the moderator, pointed out that no matter what particular field a prospective writer is interested in, a long pull with low wages must elapse before the top is reached. Eight to 12 years of newspaper work is the average of the Nieman Fellows...
Polished Performance. As a writer, Tinker was never as prolific as he wished to be. Blinded in one eye when a boy, he had to guard his sight carefully. Once, when he thought he might lose it entirely, he began memorizing great chunks of poetry to be able to go on teaching. He looked upon teaching as an exacting art, and worked upon each lecture as if it were to be his first. Every lecture was a performance. Settled in a chair by his desk and crooking his neck around to peer through his one good eye, he seemed...
Murder Around the Tree. Most of the second half is a good deal less feminine and less successful. When Writer Bolton switches from memory to action, and from past to present, her pen seems to catch a bit of fuzz, her prose blurs a little, and the feelings of the son, his ex-wife and her new husband fog up. And her last-minute attempt to knit the son's tragedy to the world situation is a piece of synthetic, Freudian chop-logic as far-fetched as saying that a tug on an umbilical cord will ultimately release...
...worked as a governess, later as a librarian, then she married and had two children. She is now a fair, grey-eyed young woman (36) who lives with her family in Buckinghamshire and, thinking that to be adventure enough, hopes never to have any others. She is a born writer and a good...