Word: writer
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...plant complex outside Harrisburg, Pa., site of the most serious accident in the relatively brief history of nuclear power. TIME dispatched three correspondents and a staff photographer to the stricken area, and their reports and pictures, along with files from our bureaus across the nation, were woven by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson into a story that not only reconstructs the accident in detail, but also assesses its consequences for the future of nuclear power and for U.S. energy policy as a whole...
...Voices is an adequate and even interesting movie, but not a great one--about what you'd expect from something filmed on location in Hoboken. It could have been a lot worse (one love scene in a purplish rainstorm demonstrated a potential for sappy disaster), and a writer without a Horatio Alger complex could have made the movie better. "We walked in a fine line" between fairy tale and fact, remarks Irving. As Karl Wallenda would say, if he could, that can be dangerous...
Furnishing her own experienced analysis of the profession was Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, a senior correspondent who has been specializing in studies of behavior for ten years. Last spring she received the Robert T. Morse Writer's Award from the American Psychiatric Association for her "outstanding contributions to the public understanding" of the discipline. For this story she drew on interviews with biochemists, social workers, patients, psychologists and psychiatrists and on conferences she has attended across the U.S. and in Europe. "What has always impressed me most about psychiatrists," says Galvin, "has been their capacity for selfcriticism. That psychoanalytic imperative...
...street named after you, you have to be a great human being as well as a great writer or artist...
...Pardoner of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is that ecclesiastic scamp who sells indulgences and moonlights pig bones and rags as holy relics. Giles Hermitage, 50, the self-revealing hero of John Wain's new novel, also traffics in illusions. He is a writer whose books, like those of Wain himself, "were civilized and responsible, neither condescending to nor affronting the reader, and commanded a small but not fickle public...