{"id":12352,"date":"2022-12-03T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12352"},"modified":"2022-12-03T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:45:11","slug":"man-of-the-year-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/03\/man-of-the-year-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Of The Year Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/time-magazine-man-of-the-year-meant-leaders-cover-story-figure-zelensky-journalism-subject-media-11669994698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When Time\u2019s \u2018Man of the Year\u2019 Meant Something<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Subjects of the magazine\u2019s annual story were once viewed as secular saints\u2014or, on occasion, devils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Lance Morrow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"History Of TIME&#039;s Person Of The Year\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/upNz8zMpGZo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Time magazine\u2019s Man of the Year selection once was a bigger deal. So, for that matter, were the Academy Awards and the presidency. It was a different time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During my 40-year career at Time, I wrote seven Man of the Year cover stories. It was called Man of the Year in those days but Time by no means excluded women from consideration. In 1976 I did the Women of the Year story about outstanding women in various fields. A man wouldn\u2019t get that assignment today. It would have to be written by a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In earlier generations,&nbsp;Wallis Simpson, who caused&nbsp;King Edward VII&nbsp;to leave the throne, became Woman of the Year in 1936. A year later, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife, Soong May-ling, were Man and Woman of the Year. The title officially changed to Person of the Year in 1999\u2014an ideological smudging that I find a little prissy. I suppose it can\u2019t be helped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the old culture, appearing on Time\u2019s cover was a secular version of being beatified by the Catholic Church. To be Man of the Year was equivalent to being canonized a saint\u2014or perhaps winning a Nobel Prize. Maybe better. Time stipulated, however, that the Man of the Year might be a devil. It was the person who had most affected the course of the year\u2019s events \u201cfor good or ill.\u201d Thus, Hitler was named in 1938 and Stalin in both 1939 and 1942. The\u00a0Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini\u00a0was Man of the Year in 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/time-magazine-man-of-the-year-meant-leaders-cover-story-figure-zelensky-journalism-subject-media-11669994698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal When Time\u2019s \u2018Man of the Year\u2019 Meant Something Subjects of the magazine\u2019s annual story were once viewed as secular saints\u2014or, on occasion, devils. By\u00a0Lance Morrow Time magazine\u2019s Man of the Year selection once was a bigger deal. So, for that matter, were the Academy Awards and the presidency. 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