Word: newspaperman
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Died. Angel Cardinal Herrera y Oria, 81, one of Spain's foremost champions of social reform; in Madrid. A former Madrid newspaperman who did not become a priest until he was 53, Herrera was among the few Spanish churchmen to speak out publicly against corruption and injustice under Franco, steadfastly campaigned for greater freedom and better living conditions for his countrymen. Within his own bishopric of Málaga, he fought illiteracy with the construction of some 250 new elementary schools in the last 20 years...
Most experienced reporters do not even attend the Convention sessions until the voting Wednesday night. There is little to be gained by attending anyway. I overhead one newspaperman saying to his editor Tuesday evening, "We ought to get a Sony portable television for the voting tomorrow night, because we can't see anything from our seats." To the extent that the Convention takes place in the Convention hall, television is bigger and better than the real thing. This disturbs me somewhat, because I didn't have to fly to Miami to watch television...
Charles Portis, 34, is an Arkansas newspaperman who has fashioned a pop anti-western in the best tradition of Cat Ballou and the Ballad of Dingus Magee. For openers, his hero is a heroine: Mattie Ross, a sassy, 14-year-old Arkansan whose chief protective girdle is a dry Bible-belt faith, and who is out to avenge the murder of her daddy back in the 1870s...
McGuire, son of a former San Francisco newspaperman, explained that in the pursuit of grades, he had become "subject to a paralyzing mental machinery: if I did not study twelve hours a day, compose at the speed of 1,000 words an hour while writing a paper, go through required reading at 33 pages an hour, I was a failure. I pushed myself until I was more enchained than a Russian factory worker in the 1930s." His longing for human contact, he said, "would come at night as I walked home from the library. I would look at the lights...
...HAVE been very faithful to the technique. As weeks went by, and nothing happened, I became a little restless and doubtful. My newspaperman's cynicism began infecting my hopes. But that didn't distract me, because Jerry Jarvis has repeatedly emphasized that no amount of doubt or resistance can thwart meditation--it is a mechanical process, right? But as time wore on, and I met other people who had stopped meditating, or weren't noticing any change, I began learning certain truths about Transcendental Meditation as a practice and as a movement. Now, after three and a half months...