Word: ridgeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VIET NAM VETERAN. While college students in the early '70s were militantly protesting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, Ron Ridgeway, 27, of Houston's University of St. Thomas, was in a Viet Nam prisoner-of-war camp. The legacy of those war years is a stiff left shoulder, wounded when he was captured. Ridgeway began college as a history major but soon switched to economics and business as a more practical field. Even so, he is finding the job picture bleak. Ridgeway, who married more than three years ago and has a young son to support, is looking...
...Cockburn, probably the best of his ilk since A. J. Liebling, printed Nat Hentoff, Ken Auletta, and Robert Christgau, probably the best pop music critic around. Andrew Sarris is arguably the best film critic in America. And "The Greasy Pole," a political column co-written by Cockburn and James Ridgeway, provides some of the best leftist commentary on American politics today. It's hard to see these people being coddled by Murdoch, a bottom-line guy, the way they were by Felker...
...wild. On a serious level, Cockburn is in the forefront of a group of leftist journalists writing in a wide variety of popular publications (from (MORE) to Parade Magazine) about what might be called "power in America". Along with writers like Andrew Kopkind, Emma Rothschild, Kirkpatrick Sale and James Ridgeway, he seeks to cover politics in the broad sense, evading Washingtonitis and other diseases afflicting mainstream pundits, the Krafts and Restons of the world...
...Cockburn is suited to these times because he understands what Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." The wild-eyed potential generalissimos of Thompson's day have given way to the faceless bureaucrats, unknown corporate executives and "liberal" intellectuals who really make the rules. His weekly columns written with Ridgeway--an Institute for PolicyStudiesradical--under the heading of Surplus Value (economic issues) and The Greasy Pole (presidential politics), are generally thoughtful and serious pieces. Cockburn saves his true Private Eye spirit for the Press Clips. Also featured are "Dear Dr. Pressclips; Helpful Hints for Harried Hacks" (where Marshall Frady...
...news came too. Some 1,300 families were told that their men's names were not on any of the lists released after the cease-fire was signed. Although there were some bizarre and happy surprises-Ronald Ridgeway, a Marine whose mother had "buried" him in 1968, was found to be alive-the hopes of many families of missing men went unrewarded...