Word: writes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Donovan retired as editor-in-chief of Time Inc. publications at the end of May, he opened up what he called his "portfolio of interests"-a file fat enough to occupy any energetic man full time. He planned to teach a course at Harvard on the press and politics, write a book about his 40-year career as a journalist, consult two or three days a week on various Time Inc. projects, serve on the boards of the Washington Star, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., and the Ford Foundation, among others...
...teach young people about the glories of the area's independent mountain folk. He named the project Foxfire, after a Georgia lichen that glows in the dark, and set up a course of study, which includes photography, folklore and music. The students interview elderly people about their lives and write stories for the Foxfire magazines and books. Published by Doubleday since 1972, the books have sold more than...
...parents to provide support. Follow-up programs are sometimes weak and the long-range effectiveness remains to be seen, but some PUSH-EXCEL programs have produced lower absentee rates and higher morale. Says Jackson: "Affirmative action is a moot question if you don't learn to read and write." And at graduation, he wants voter registration cards handed out with diplomas...
...preparation for his campaign, Brown has lately increased his overtures to his party's left wing, most of which op posed his support this year of a constitutional convention to write a budget-balancing amendment. Brown has been emphasizing his opposition to nuclear power, and now appears frequently with Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda, two leading activists. Explains one Brown aide: "Jerry has no national constituency, so Hayden and Fonda have offered him a connection to the antiwar, antinuclear crowd, and he's taken...
...Starbuck so scandalously long playing that he gets involved first in Hiss-Chambers and then three decades later in Watergate. Novelist Kurt Vonnegut did, turning the tale into Jailbird, his first book in three years, which will be published this fall. His next book may well take longer to write since Vonnegut, summering on Long Island, has taken to canoeing just as he did as a boy on an Indiana lake. "It is especially pleasant," he explains, resting on his literary oar, "not to paddle but to let the wind take you. It blows you into this bird and that...