Word: characterizing
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“Stories are powerful in way that statistics aren’t,” she said. “If you get down to the individual level of a character in a TV show, it’s easier to become more sympathetic to an issue that...
While I won’t be able to tell you what became of our friend in the OCS lounge, I will say from my conversations with athletes that he probably never experienced a more transitional period in his life that has caused him to articulate so naturally why he...
Health and the U.S. Character
Shame on Joe Klein for playing the race card to make his point about health-care reform [Sept. 21]. Is his implication that white people lack "character" if they oppose legislation that may or may not disproportionately favor minorities? I am a reasonable American with a bunch of formal education...
But Her Fearful Symmetry is not a book of great emotional force, not the way Time Traveler's Wife was. It's marred by a wrenching plot twist that, to me, sails way beyond the bounds of plausibility. And there's ultimately something strangely toylike about the little world of...