Word: writer
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...that whatever he does for the Carter presidency is bound to be a plus.") Donovan covered the State Department, Capitol Hill and the White House before serving as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He began his 34-year career at Time as a writer for FORTUNE, and, at 38, he became its managing editor. TIME Co-Founder Henry Luce selected him as his top deputy in 1959, and Donovan succeeded Luce as editor-in-chief when Luce gave up the position in 1964. In recent years he has interviewed virtually every major head...
FRANCES FITZGERALD, writer (Fire in the Lake): Barry Commoner, Ralph Nader and Cesar Chavez are possibilities. Nader and Chavez are leaders on a grand scale. Their thinking is original and they have the ability to make things happen. It is characteristic of American society today that the antiwar movement, women's movement, antinukes have a collective leadership...
IRVING KRISTOL, neoconservative writer: There's no question that Henry Kissinger elevated the discussion of American foreign policy. There aren't many individuals-George Kennan in his prime was one-who apply mind to foreign policy as against just opinion, and Kissinger is certainly...
...Garry Wills, 45, is a writer and columnist who defies tidy labeling. He carefully disengages himself from the right wing in America, which he claims is simply an "amalgam" of individualism in economic affairs. He is skeptical that the political system can produce beneficial change and looks instead to forces "from the principled minority." Wills, who spent six years in a Catholic seminary, says that "the Gospel's concerns are the ones that seem to me to be conservative in the right sense: concern for the poor, concern for peace, concern for social harmony." A humanities professor at Johns Hopkins...
There, in the guise of Novelist Alice Thumb, the narrator accepts an invitation from an elderly couple to use their vacation in Italy. Her writer's eye quickly perceives that the dwelling's modern angularities serve no other function than a change from the traditional. Its furnishings are a collection of expensive replicas; the library is a random reflection of the chic. One volume is titled A Lifetime Reading Plan...