Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Writes Le Carre (ne David Cornwell): "I recall with particular gratitude the help of Strobe Talbott, the illustrious Washington journalist, Sovietologist and writer on nuclear defence. If there are errors in this book, they are surely not his, and there would have been many more without...
...needed insights on Hong Kong for his 1977 novel The Honourable Schoolboy, Le Carre devoted days to conversations with TIME Hong Kong correspondent Bing Wong. For The Little Drummer Girl (1983), set partially in the Middle East, Le Carre got useful background from Abu Said Abu Rish, a Palestinian journalist who at the time was office manager of TIME's Beirut bureau. Le Carre still treasures an unusual gift that Abu Said gave him -- a sword that once belonged to the Palestinian's father. "Have you ever tried to take a sword through security in the Middle East?" Le Carre...
...rare bit of curtain lifting, the Vatican responded two years ago by giving its blessing to an investigation of the murder charges by British journalist John Cornwell, whose book, A Thief in the Night, was released in Britain in late May. A onetime seminarian, Cornwell, 48, is a veteran editor for the London Observer and a novelist. Rome backed the project after Britain's George Basil Cardinal Hume vouched for Cornwell's fairness and integrity. The author spent months interviewing the main witnesses, many of whom decided to speak only because of the Vatican go-ahead...
...Readers of Greene's memoir A Sort of Life may experience a mild paramnesia as they again hear of the novelist's neurotic childhood, his crush on his psychoanalyst's wife, his dissolute years at Oxford, his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his beginnings as a journalist, and the physical and spiritual wanderings that led to the writing of his popular moral thrillers...
From other radical speakers came a similar catalog of complaints. Journalist-Deputy Yuri Chernichenko took a daring jab at Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev, wondering why he had been placed in charge of agriculture when "he was absolutely ignorant of this sphere and had failed with ideology." Others called for a review of the events in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, when soldiers and riot squads attacked demonstrators with shovels and, it is alleged, with poison gas, killing 20. The probing questions continued until the new First Vice President and nonvoting Politburo member, Anatoli Lukyanov, was moved to read...