Word: addison
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Journalism has always been the first and best refuge of the essayist. Since the early 18th century when Joseph Addison and Richard Steele first put together the Tatler -- a thrice-weekly newspaper designed to elevate the moral and intellectual faculties of England's budding middle class -- the essayist has enjoyed constant if somewhat ambiguous employment as a member of the working press. Plying his trade under a variety of guises that have ranged from the timeless street scenes of Dickens 'Sketches by Boz to the out-and-out polemics of H.L. Mencken, the essayist has approached the inherent conflicting interests...
...bigger the government, the more it governs, right? Wrong, snorts Charles Peters, the irrepressible, iconoclastic editor of the Washington Monthly, who has written a sprightly, salty assault on practically everybody in the nation's capital, How Washington Really Works (Addison-Wesley; 146 pages; $10.95). The secret is that Washington does not really work, says Peters; it just appears to in a great game of make-believe. Claims Peters: "In Washington, bureaucrats confer, the President proclaims and the Congress legislates, but the impact on reality is negligible, if evident...
...midst of general prosperity, America has spawned a hard-core group of disaffected people-an all but lost generation of men and women almost permanently without jobs, without education, and without hope of getting either. Our cover story, written by George Russell and researched by Nation Reporter-Researchers Anita Addison, Edward Adler and Agnes Clark, examines this under class and the overwhelming problems that set it apart even among the poor...
...Thirteen correspondents in seven bureaus worked on the story, along with Reporter-Researchers Anita Addison and Edward Adler. They interviewed youths and their victims, police and judges, sociologists and social workers. The young offenders were often happy to discuss their records; one youngster even posed for photos. The juvenile court justices, wary of confidentiality statutes, were more reluctant, but finally let some of our correspondents visit their courtrooms...
...group of seven boys scored well over 700 (out of a possible 800), a feat matched by only 5% of 18-year-old males. Besides Dietz, Camerer and Stark, the test also identified two other youngsters who are graduating from Johns Hopkins this year-Michael Kotschenreuther, 18, and Robert Addison, 19-as mathematically gifted. Stanley also helped other youthful math wizards, whom his testing turned up, get into other colleges. Among them: Eric Jablow, 15, who this year became the youngest boy ever to graduate from New York's Brooklyn College...