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Such attention is nothing new for Revel, a literary editor and columnist for the newsmagazine L 'Express and its editor in chief from 1978 to 1981. His 1970 book in praise of American freedom of dissent, Without Marx or Jesus, outraged nationalistic French intellectuals of both the left and right. In 1976 he created another furor with The Totalitarian Temptation, a blistering condemnation of French Socialist tolerance of "vintage Stalinism...
...Western White House in Santa Barbara included three of the President's children, Ron, Maureen and Patti, and his brother Neil Reagan. But as the Reagans celebrated with a traditional Thanksgiving meal last week, Michael Reagan, 39, was reacting to some remarks made to a syndicated columnist by his stepmother Nancy, who said that there has been "an estrangement" between Michael and his father for the past three years. In Omaha, where he was celebrating Thanksgiving with his in-laws, Michael denied any estrangement. Noting that he and his wife "have the only two grandchildren of the President," Michael...
...economic consulting firm and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. Charles Murray, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, called the proposed pastoral "a restatement of the dogmas of the Great Society" and "a rehash of failed ideas." The bishops, wrote Columnist George Will, "hurl cliches at problems that have proven intractable in the face of strenuous efforts by persons of intelligence and dedication...
DIED. Eugenia Sheppard, 851sh, society and fashion columnist for more than 40 years, whose breezy style, almost prescient eye for trends and emphasis on the people who create and wear clothes revolutionized fashion reporting in the 1950s and '60s, when her column in the New York Herald Tribune and some 80 other papers made her a power in the design business; of cancer; in New York City...
...nosy scribblers of the press," wrote the New York Times's James Reston last Sunday. "Not since the days of H.L. Mencken have so many reporters written so much or so well about the shortcomings of the President and influenced so few voters." Reston and those like Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft, who lamented in the past few weeks that "greed sits in the American saddle," are more accustomed to being the Pied Pipers of Middle America, marching jauntily out front with majorities forming obediently behind. Being deserted is a frustrating experience. Reston sighed that "the people...