Izzy Stone redux.In our last issue Fred Goss Fred Arlo Goss (born March 25, 1961, Orchard Lake, Michigan), an American TV actor, writer, and comedian. Personal Goss and wife Arlene live together with their three children in the San Fernando Valley community of Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles, California. wrote an appreciation of the iconoclastic i·con·o·clast n. 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. 2. One who destroys sacred religious images. journalist and newsletter editor I.F. "Izzy" Stone, upon the occasion of the publication of a new biography by Myra MacPherson, "All Governments Lie": The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I.F. Stone (Scribner, $35). In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , in the Columbia Journalism Review The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) is an American magazine for professional journalists published bimonthly by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1961. , Anthony Marro concluded his review of the book with this with this about Izzy: "MacPherson's view is that he was a national treasure, probably more deserving of a statue in Washington than most of the generals. That's not likely to happen, but if it did, a good place for it might be in front of the Government Printing Office. It could show him peering through a magnifying glass at one of its reports, because that's where he got many, if not most, of his scoops." |
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