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Blame it on the spectrum theory, which holds that columnists should be picked the way Noah filled his ark, with Irving specimens from every category. On the Gannett chain of 85 newspapers, "our policy is not to have a policy," John Quinn, its editorial director, says. But he urges his editors to pick columnists across a broad spectrum of views. Similarly, the Wall Street Journal, with the most rigidly polemical editorial page of any major paper, seeks to vary its Johnny-one-note tone by using some outside voices. Irving Kristol and Arthur Schlesinger are well-matched middleweights...
Copying proven hits is, of course, nothing new for TV. But in past years the networks at least looked for other media bandwagons to jump on. A few seasons back, clones of Animal House were in fashion; another year, rip-offs of Raiders of the Lost Ark were the rage. This year, however, the networks have scarcely looked beyond their own backyard for inspiration. Along with the crime fighters, there will be the requisite batch of sitcoms, more romantic fluff from the Aaron Spelling factory, another in the parade of blooper shows (ABC's People Do the Craziest Things...
...with boats. Grahame's Water Rat got as much pleasure out of fussing around with his boat as he did from actually rowing it. So do Lloyd and Pat Kennedy. That is why the retired Air Force colonel and his wife have driven from their home in Harrison, Ark., to the tiny (pop. 550) coastal community of Brooklin, Me. And that is why a sunny summer morning finds them bent together over a building frame, beveling the planks on what will, in another day or two, be an 8-ft.-long dinghy, capable of carrying them for a sail...
...Dickens; it does not have one here. It has defied attempts to capture it entirely: writers have taken it on, got lost in its complexities, returned advance money. How can anything linear be made of sprawl, dirty air, glitz, wealth, power, celebrities, a Noah's ark of immigrants, real estate gone mad, earthquakes, brushfires, mud slides, avalanches, floods, a million or so illegal aliens, freeways, enslavement to the automobile, drive-in churches, Disneyland, outrageous poverty, oil, the Pacific Rim, living on the fault line, heart-stopping geographical beauty, to name but a few ingredients? In spots it owns...
...Francisco--ark A. Carter '85 is disillusioned with the Democrats. After a day and a half as Harvard's only student delegate to the Democratic National Convention, Carter says he has been unimpressed by party leaders he has met here...