Word: column
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Home-stretch time, gang. This is the end of column season ("Yippee!" says the president of the Francis Rosa Fan Club) and my desk must be cleaned out before I'm able to hitch a ride on the next zamboni toward the new hockey campaign...
...triumphalism" (a prideful attitude about the church and its secular image), still feel his eccentric pursuit of poverty is misplaced in a bishop. Topel is indeed much loved and admired for his unworldly show, but not all of his views sit easily with members of the diocese. In a column written for the weekly Inland Register, Topel once addressed the topic "Black Is Beautiful" and ended by giving three reasons he might like to be black himself. An irritated parishioner thereupon dropped off a box of black shoe polish. The bishop laughed. And, no doubt, joyfully applied the blacking...
...have absolutely no business writing the weekly football prediction column. The fact is that I've been pressed into service because Crimson Sports Editor John Donley, who normally pens this piece, is out on an investigative reporting assignment, trying to track down the nine points which separate Harvard from an undefeated season...
...thanks for printing Mr. Fried's column. When an introspective, intelligent and talented musician sings from his heart about experiences with love, herion addiction, and with the death of a close friend, it's nice to know that there's enough variety in the world that a critic could call the music "silly." When a musician can sing honestly about depression (alone onstage with only a piano or guitar), and then bounce into a state of frenzied optimism (with a powerful hard rock band), it's interesting that a critic could feel "embarrassed...
...novelty that accompany big events They also missed some zero-sum punditry-someone must win, someone must lose-of the kind that refuses to believe Sadat and Begin could both intelligently weigh their advantages and conclude that agreement was in their mutual interest. (Or, as a Joseph Kraft column demanded right after Camp David, "Who caved...