Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a future in the humor-column dodge, but don't quit your job at the shoe factory till the check clears. Still interested? Try completing the column from this collection that begins "I've been wondering for a long time where all the chicken a la king went." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker writer and syndicated columnist (weekly in 200 newspapers), handed himself this chiller a couple of years ago. Clearly he had used up all his easy material about Ronald Reagan and how everyone hates mimes. He had to throw in every surefire giggle from Nehru jackets...
...recent Crimson column (November 19, 1987) implied that students who work in support of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) devote little time or effort to the union drive. On the contrary, our student supporters respect our work and are deeply committed to the drive. Their commitment is combined with a willingness to work long hours at often tedious tasks...
That is exactly the response proposed by the Miami Herald's Tom Fiedler, who was the lead reporter in the stakeout that broke the Gary Hart-Donna Rice story. Last week Fiedler wrote in a column that the "character issue" was now being carried to "absurd" lengths. David Broder of the Washington Post, the paper that delivered the final blow to Hart, also fretted. "It's time to slow down and take another look at what we're doing," Broder wrote, "before more damage is done...
...recent column, "Divesting of Divestment," Nordhaus chides Harvard's activists for failing to keep up the fight even though Harvard has not fully divested and apartheid is still in force...
...setback in the Soviet leader's own political standing. But two days after Yeltsin's downfall, in a display of glasnost unprecedented even in the Gorbachev era, the party paper Pravda ran a detailed account of the sacking. Starting on the front page and occupying the entire 16-column spread of the second and third pages, the story left no doubt that Gorbachev not only acquiesced in the political assassination of his protege but took the lead in arranging...