Hersey

American  

[hur-see, -zee] / ˈhɜr si, -zi /

noun

1. John Richard, 1914–93, U.S. journalist, novelist, and educator.

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Example Sentences

When John Hersey’s account “Hiroshima” filled an entire issue of the New Yorker in 1946, following six survivors around Hiroshima and what they saw in the moment of the explosion and then afterward, Albert Einstein bought 1,000 copies and started passing them out to everybody he could think of, because he thought, this was clearly an atrocity, and this is something that we really need to discourage people from ever, ever doing again.

From Salon

John Hersey, now far better known than Laurence, wrote “Hiroshima,” a report on the destruction of the Japanese city of 300,000, which consumed an entire issue of the New Yorker magazine a year after the bombing.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nowhere in Mr. Loeterman’s film is it implied that the war didn’t need to end, that the bomb didn’t end it and that lives weren’t probably saved, though the point is raised that the U.S. plan wasn’t just to bomb, but to bomb and then invade—which would have exposed American service people to the horrors reported on by Hersey.

From The Wall Street Journal

AI isn’t going to leave people with their skin peeling off, and “devastation” might be overreach in predicting its effects on society, but the tweaking of information by Groves and company—something, we are told, that was eventually countered by such journalists as Hersey, Charles H. Loeb, Wilfred Burchett and the photojournalist Yoshito Matsushige—mirrors the hazy predictions made now about artificial intelligence, generated by people with a vested interest in its success.

From The Wall Street Journal

Away from the ghoulish spectre of the trial, there's anger – albeit dwindling – among the communities where the victims are from over the way the case has been dissected, local councillor Nathan Hersey tells the BBC.

From BBC