Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corinthians 3 for 600 fellow congregants, they flew on Air Force Two to Palm Springs for an idyl with Publisher Walter Annenberg. The royals' limousine wheeled into the driveway just past the intersection of Bob Hope Drive and Frank Sinatra Drive, beyond the 30-ft-tall reproduction Mayan column and within view of the three flags: Old Glory, the Union Jack and Annenberg's personal banner, a yellow Mayan rune against a white background. Annenberg, 74, spent 5½ years as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Sunnylands is a modernist San Simeon...
...tightrope-walking act of writing a column, Safire has the Washington gifts of balance and timing. He can manage to be topical without sounding like every other pundit; he can venture into quirky subjects without seeming irrelevant. He knows how to provoke readers enough that they keep reading, but not so much that they angrily turn the page. He is a master of both puckish wit and ear-splitting indignation, yet on matters of moral consequence he can write with majestically measured restraint. He boasts of having taken the scalps of Cabinet members, congressional leaders and diplomats...
...Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D. Mass.), Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) and former Vice President Walter Mondale are the only candidates from the traditional industrial Northeast and Midwest party base Historically, the South has been the other base of the party, dutifully casting its electoral votes in the Democratic column in most Presidential elections. (The exceptions were 1964, when most of the Deep South voted for Gold water, and the Nixon and Reagan landslides of 1972 and 1980.) So three Southern Presidential candidates in a wide field should come as no surprise to the Democrats. Further, in this election...
...author of last week's Opinion column pronounced harsh judgment on the Core curriculum. Far from introducing breadth and intellectual cohesion into the education of undergraduates, he charges, the Core "has betrayed liberal arts education, transforming it into technical training." In his opinion the faculty has neglected its responsibility to say what knowledge "is fundamentally important for an educated American." Instead, it has left decisions "to the students--in their selection of courses--and to the specialized scholars..who design and teach Core courses...
First issues are often erratic; the new Vanity Fair is eccentric. It has not found its personality. A profusion of thick dividing lines and varying column widths fight to keep a reader's attention from straying to the words. The writing often reflects a lack of firm editing. Short reviews offer mostly glib opinion with scant analysis; the writers, moreover, apparently believe that if one metaphor per sentence is good, several are better, even if contradictory. A rambling rumination on "an American loss of nerve" by former New York Times Critic John Leonard has, aptly, a running leitmotiv...