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...desert Arab tradition, however, an absolute monarch is, like the Pope, the servant of the servants of the Almighty. Even on the street, as Faisal climbs into the front seat of his white Chrysler New Yorker, he is apt to pause to listen to petitioners, some hardly more than beggars. Once, recalls an aide, his left foot was in the car, his right foot still on the ground, when a simple Bedouin began running toward him shouting, "Ya, Faisal!" (the Arab equivalent of "Hey"). Bodyguards started to chase the man, but the King stopped them. "Don't drive...
LIPPMANN "had little direct impact on the general public," Richard H. Rovere, The New Yorker's political analyst, wrote, but he was "read with immense respect by presidents and other policymaking officials and much of what he thought and said found its way into the democratic consensus." That newspapers are written for the general public, not presidents and other policymaking officials, didn't bother Rovere, any more than his picture of a "democratic consensus" arrived at by presidents and other policymaking officials, not the general public, seems to. James Reston, The New York Time ex-vice-president who's sometimes...
OTHER NOTEWORTHY articles include a two-part series in the New Yorker (Dec. 2 and Dec. 9) on Multinational Corporations by Richard Barnet and Ronald Miller; an excellent review of Robert Fitzgerald's new translation of the Iliad by D.S. Carne-Ross in the New York Review of Books (Dec. 12); and a fascinating article by Roger Morris in the Columbia Journalism Review (November/December) on the unfair coverage of Allende's Chile in the mass media...
...Midcult, My Not-So-Dear Editor, who should be warned against Marshall McLuhan (compared to whom "Spengler is cautious and Toynbee positively pedantic"). Buckminster Fuller (whose prose reads like Archie the cockroach with his capital shift working). And of course Tom Wolfe-"Parajournalist!" -who presumed to attack The New Yorker, the Golden Arches Macdonald calls home. Could a Macdonald enemies list be complete without those sparring partners Cozzens (James Gould) and Cousins (Norman), the author of By Love Possessed who was by Macdonald savaged and the editor of Saturday Review/World? (When Macdonald called Cousins' magazine a "honeypot of banality...
...first rose in the fertile imagination of Martin Umansky, 58, KAKE's president and general manager. A New Yorker who has been a fixture in Wichita since he became a radio newsman there 34 years ago, Umansky has propelled KAKE to top ratings among Wichita's TV stations. He enjoys exposes (unhygienic restaurants and price fixing by pharmacies have been among KAKE's targets) and has long believed that Wichita's papers lack zeal...