Ten years ago.I.F Stone's political iconoclasm iconoclasm (īkŏn`ōklăzəm) [Gr.,=image breaking], opposition to the religious use of images. Veneration of pictures and statues symbolizing sacred figures, Christian doctrine, and biblical events was an early feature of Christian inspires new generation of NLers Almost 20 years after he ceased publishing his influential newsletter, and one year after his death (NL/NL 7/12/89), I.F. "Izzy Izzy is a common nickname for the given names Isabel, Elizabeth, or Isaac. It may refer to:
In the pilot issue of David R. Zimmerman's new newsletter, Probe, he writes: This is a time of media mergers and journalistic jour·nal·is·tic adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of journalism or journalists. jour  nal·is conservatism. We hope, with Probe to help reanimate the independent, critical spirit of I.F. Stone's Newsletter--which was the key inspiration for Probe, as our format suggests. And in a promotion letter we recently received from The Washington Spectator Spectator, English daily periodical published jointly by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele with occasional contributions from other writers. It succeeded the Tatler, a periodical begun by Steele on Apr. 12, 1709, under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff. , Kurt Vonnegut Noun 1. Kurt Vonnegut - United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922) Vonnegut writes: It is edited by Tris Coffin, a veteran newsman and close friend of mine. He works in the tradition of I.F. Stone, digging important information from the mountains of public records, which, as often as not, officials had hoped would stay hidden. July 31, 1990 Probe has since fell off the radar screen but The Washington Spectator is still going strong, having celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this year. Ben A. Franklin is now editor. P.O. Box 90, Garrett Park, MD 20896. |
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