Shana Alexander
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Shana Alexander (6 October 1925 – 23 June 2005) was an American journalist. Although she became the first woman staff writer and columnist for Life magazine, she was best known for her participation in the "Point-Counterpoint" debate segments of 60 Minutes, in the late 1970s, with conservative James J. Kilpatrick.
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[edit]- The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
- The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 33
- We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
- The Feminine Eye (1970), p. 169
- Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.
- A delicious appeal to unreason (2005) [1]