Word: columnists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More: Society had slumped into a posture of cynical disbelief; no, the search for spiritual illumination was epidemic and had grown so fervent (so Columnist Harriet Van Home claimed last week) that it was endangering the state-church separation. The moral permissiveness achieved in the '60s was ripening into generalized decadence; no, not only was fidelity growing fashionable once again, but television was even cutting back on sex and violence for fear of losing the mass audience...
Meanwhile, members of his own Likud coalition begged Begin not to go to Oslo. As Israeli Newspaper Columnist Amos Keinan put it, Begin's attendance at a peace celebration without a peace was "like celebrating the brith mila [Jewish circumcision ritual] while the baby is not yet born...
...Columnist Higgins, a lesson in libel...
Approval of the decision came clattering off printing presses around the country. The Montgomery, Alabama Observer called it "one more point scored for enlightenment in America," and the New York Post said the move "does Harvard honor." Syndicated columnist Joseph Brainin said that "the President of Harvard acted in the tradition of a great American institution of higher learning. He felt that the Hanfstaengl scholarship at Harvard would be a contradiction of all that great University stands for." In a somewhat different tone, the San Diego Union crowed that by "rejecting a scholarship from a Hitler henchman, Harvard hoists...
...least one newsman made news as well as reported it: visiting Washington Columnist Robert Novak. One evening while Novak and the Globe and Mail's Fraser were talking to a crowd near the posters, Fraser remarked that his colleague might be granted an interview with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing ply following day. The astonished listeners, immediately began to ply Novak Novak questions for the Vice Premier. At the crowd's insistence, Novak said Teng had try to return the following evening to tell them what Teng had said. He failed to do so, pleading another...