Word: blackout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long-time Commentary contributor Midge Decter has done it again. We didn't think she could still surprise us, but in a surprisingly silly article in this month's issue (kindly reprinted for non-subscribers by The Boston Globe), Decter argues that the liberal reaction to the blackout looting in New York was essentially racist...
...afternoon Post (circ. 609,000), he says, are the "Chinese restaurants of journalism-an hour after you read them you're still hungry." As for the newly restyled Times (circ. 854,000), Saffir calls it "successful, fat, stuffy" and alleges that the paper has perpetrated a virtual news blackout on the birth of its new morning competitor. Counters Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "Mr. Saffir's remarks are too contemptible to answer." It is true that the Times has limited its Trib coverage to brief announcements. But Times editors have reason to be skeptical. Beginning in 1973, they...
During the New York blackout his comment on the morning after...
...short nonsense pieces and a weekly letter written for his nationally syndicated newspaper column. Lardner had a national following which today can only be compared to Jimmy Breslin, although the styles of the two differ tremendously--Breslin writing about busing riots and massive looting in a New York City blackout, while Lardner chose a much lighter subject matter, depicting the lives of boxers and family scenes, purely for the purpose of entertainment...
...complaints." When asked about her feelings concerning Harvard's stock in corporations with holdings in the Republic of South Africa, she said, "That doesn't bother me, there's nothing wrong with South Africa." She was put off by rioting in New York this summer following the Great Blackout, Round II: "I thought it was disgusting. This is the United States, why did it have to happen?" She said she was not aware that unemployment in some of the looted areas is over 50 per cent. She is an extreme case, perhaps, but nonetheless a case in point...