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...once called "the closest embodiment of the Johnsonian type of literary dictatorship the United States had known." From the image of the man and writer that emerges in this diary, it was a fitting sobriquet for journalist H.L. Menken...
...Prime Minister. He was twelve years old in 1948, when his father became a Member of Parliament and the National Party rose to power on the platform of Grand Apartheid. While he modeled himself on his stern and unyielding father, his brother Willem, 61, who became a journalist and a vocal critic of apartheid, took after their more moderate mother. F.W., says his brother, "was always part of the Establishment, always a conformist...
...with the opposition. Worse yet, her Cabinet stinks with corruption scandals, including allegations that her husband Asif Ali Zardari and father-in-law Hakim Ali Zardari, chairman of the parliamentary public- accounts committee, have taken advantage of their position to collect kickbacks on government contracts. Says Maleeha Lodi, a journalist close to Bhutto: "This government has lost the moral high ground. She is at grave risk politically...
Staffers consider Marshall an honorary journalist and value his extralegal advice; he even catches occasional grammatical errors. Senior editor Jose M. Ferrer III recalls asking Marshall to review an early draft of a story. "He said there was no problem legally, but that it was the dumbest thing he'd ever read in TIME," says Ferrer. The story was killed. Some fielding...
Midstream may remind a few of Ludwig Lewisohn's Mid-Channel. Sixty years ago, this journalist also tired of Manhattan's temptations and asked, "How do you live from within outward? From what ultimate satisfactions do you derive your poise, your power, your courage in the face of this apparently empty universe, of age, of death?" Schreiber offers some honest answers...