Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eagerness to condemn a right-wing organization, the staff has forgotten one of the first rules of journalism: unsigned staff pieces represent the opinion of the publication; signed pieces represent only the view of the author. The article in Peninsula, offensive as it may be, was the work of only one person, and therefore only he should be held accountable for that article, as the author himself pointed out in a letter to The Crimson last week. To argue about the use of the word "we" is to blur a line which is inherently very clear: individuals are responsible...
...statement at the bottom of the Peninsula's masthead claims that "All signed pieces express the views of the author." The article in question, however, was made to sound like a staff editorial: it employed a "we" personification and--in writing of "Peninsula's Official Enemies List" [italics added]--spoke for the magazine as a whole. Moreover, the political and philosophical agenda of Peninsula is so consistent and extreme that those who sign on and allow their names to appear on the masthead have to assume that they will be linked in spirit with all that appears within the magazine...
Essentially, this appears to be a classic case of irresponsibility on the part of Peninsula, the author of the Peninsula piece and those who tacked up the swastika. The active members of Peninsula need to muster the courage to admit to themselves and the campus just how small and isolated their organization is, and their less-active members need to have the courage to either disavow themselves entirely or else take responsibility for the actions of their colleagues. By the same token, those who disagree with Peninsula must enter the discourse in a constructive manner and not hide behind anonymous...
...burnout, mortally sick from seeing damaged children. He is no longer surprised, for instance, to notice an eight-year-old boy who has come to him with cigarette burns on his body scissoring the crotches from plastic soldiers. Nothing new, but "Devlin realized with a dreary fatigue," the author writes, "that he would be obliged to discover the reason for this detail...
...from Devlin's viewpoint and partly, in convincing street language, from that of the drug dealers and their women, is spare and cinematic. Devlin, far out on a lonely voyage, saves his honor. Saves his daughter too. But it is the neighborhood that wins. Good ending, good novel. The author's most recent book before Ten Indians was All Souls Rising, a panoramic, 530-page historical novel about Haiti's slave rebellion in the 1790s. A lot of readers of the new novel who never read Bell before are going to be digging that one out of libraries and paperback...