Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Griff it has been for much of Thomas Griffith's 45 years in the corridors of Time Inc. For the past twelve years he has been turning out TIME's Newswatch column. Readers who have come to know and respect the column's level-headed analyses of the press and its foibles will not be surprised to learn that the reader comes first in Griffith's mind. "I never considered it my role to defend the press," he says. "I start with the reader's curiosity and concern about the information he's getting. Sometimes this means explaining what...
...only did the game put another slash in the "W" column for Harvard, but it allowed them to regain confidence...
...forever telling them ((local officials)) to go forward," says the fictional letter to Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, "but you never explain which way is forward. They themselves have no idea." That jest might not earn so much as a chuckle in a Johnny Carson monologue or an Art Buchwald column, but in the Soviet Union, where satirizing state officials can be harmful to one's health, the letter is a comedic landmark of sorts. Its appearance in the March issue of Theater, a glossy literary monthly, may mark the first time | that the name of a sitting Soviet leader...
...half-speed, Harvard was the better team, which it showed near game's end when it orchistrated a series of pretty plays over the middle, three of them going for goals. But, ideally, a game like yesterday's serves a purpose beyond putting a slash in the win column...
John Larew's March 14 column praises the Dartmouth administration for punishing four student journalists whose article sharply criticized a professor. He complains that the students' article reflected an opinion about affirmative action which he does not share, and describes the article as provocative, unfair, illegitimate, profoundly and shockingly insensitive, uncivil, irresponsible, vicious, inflammatory, neo conservative, and racist...