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Provocative though many of the black right-wing ideas are, it seems unlikely that they wilL inspire new recruits for the G.O.P. Observes William Raspberry, the astute black columnist for the Washington Post: "Even those blacks who criticize the traditional Liberal approach are not willing to say that the best way to help blacks is to get the Government out of the way, and let the market work. We don't have the security to allow the Government to be neutral with regard to our struggle...
MARRIED. Jimmy Breslin, 51, streetwise author and columnist; and Ronnie Eldridge, 51, assistant director for intergovernmental and community relations for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; both for the second time; in New York City...
Variety, which has 13 full-time reporters, three editors and one columnist, is celebrated, too, for its use of such exotic locutions as "canto" for week, "cleffer" for songwriter, "w.k." for well known and "ankled" for quit. The paper faithfully records the cross-continent comings and goings of celebrities, and covered one of the great upheavals of the '70s with the one-line note, "D.C. to L.A.: Richard M. Nixon...
...still has a long way to go. The Reporter's night-life writer, George Christy, often requires people giving a party to pay his freelance photographers' fees in exchange for coverage in his column. The paper's recording-industry columnist, Dianne Bennett, a former Beverly Hills meter maid who is paid $ 100 or so a week, is known for using her Reporter platform to skewer her enemies, sometimes bending the facts to suit her case. Staffer Hank Grant routinely attributes items to "my studio spy Onda Lotalot" and "New York Spy Luce Lipp" in his daily column...
Some of the intellectuals approached by TIME resolutely refused to play. 'Tm against it," said Garry Wills, author, columnist and professor of American culture and public policy at Northwestern. "I think it's profoundly uneducated to frame the question in terms of lists." Others were willing to play but mistrusted the rules. "Very few books stand on their own," said Daniel Bell, professor of sociology at Harvard. "You cannot read Kant without having read Hume, and you can't read Hume without having read Descartes...