Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invaders was interrupted by the fall of France in 1940. The collaborationist Vichy government, hoping to appropriate some of his fame and prestige, named the writer-pilot to a post on its National Council. He scornfully refused from a self-imposed exile in the U.S., where he continued to write books and advocate American intervention...
When Fanning went to Boston in 1983 to become editor of the Christian Science Monitor, Weaver succeeded her at the News and began looking for people, as one deputy put it, "who write stories that are a bit of a surprise." He also stressed old-fashioned digging. Last year, after two reporters fished a stenographer's notes from a trash can outside a grand jury courtroom, the paper's revelations based on those notes nearly blew Governor William Sheffield out of office for alleged involvement in a state office- leasing scam. Readers gobbled up the Tale of the Trash...
This artful mix has won a steady stream of reader converts, among them Governor Sheffield, who admits he prefers the News even though "they write horrible stories about me." Advertisers too are climbing aboard, raising the News's market share to a healthy 65%. As for the once depleted and demoralized staff, it is reveling in the sleek new building, with its workout room, outdoor running track and the latest in computer technology. Marveled a visiting Fanning as she inspected the $8 million printing press: "It seems so big league...
...power in the hands of the few is precisely what has held many nations back. By wielding strong control over their economies, socialist states leave scant room for innovation, enterprise or experimentation. In a recent book, How the West Grew Rich, Authors Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell Jr. write that the explanation for Western Europe's economic growth starting in the Middle Ages was the increasing dispersal of power in society. They conclude that this achievement "stemmed from a relaxation, or a weakening, of political and religious controls, giving other departments of social life the opportunity to experiment with change...
...depends on what is meant by reality. In a dictatorship allergic to cameras and hostile to free reporting, even to show "ordinary life" often requires Soviet permission, and vetting of who is shown. Print journalists manage to suggest these limitations in what they write. But on the screen the eye sees an irrefutable "reality" that compellingly overrides whatever the ear is being told. This is what makes television so powerful, and on occasion so worrisome. As shown, Rita Tikhonova, the model 21-year-old Moscow student who becomes a teacher, is a real and sympathetic individual. The unstated implication...