Word: columning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, I'm sure Mr. Zucker is very busy. But, a good sports columnist should never be too busy to look at the stats. To sum up my thoughts: Zucker is an able writer but his column and his research have been atrocious in spots. Robert Steinberg Punter, Placekicker, Harvard Football Team
...writers and editors for lapses in taste and balance (or excesses in outspokenness). The unintended effect of such after-the-fact scolding is to convey the impression that nobody in responsible authority reads the paper before it goes to press. The Times recently took away a twice-a-week column by its Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter Sydney Schanberg, who wrote passionately against real estate speculators and presumably displeased the publisher. Schanberg subsequently resigned. The editorials in most papers these days discuss the issues with the evenhandedness of a sociologist and the fervor of an accountant. They aim to inform and perhaps...
...from time to time demagogues get too far in the democracy, it is also true that eventually a decent, awakened majority always brings them low. Yet even a limited display of this kind is infuriating and scary. It seizes the imagination and grows immense. After the speech a fifth column of haters walked down the Garden ramps and out into the city, each brooding in his private storm and waiting for a sign. In the morning they mingled with the world...
...losses fool you into thinking the Crimson didn't have a successful weekend--it chalked up some definite plusses in the experience column...
...flabbergasted by the desertion of his most valuable player: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." Farming and rural life enchanted White, although he wrote Thurber in 1938, "I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens." He kept tending to both, writing a monthly column called "One Man's Meat" for Harper's magazine between 1938 and 1943. He continued to contribute to The New Yorker via the post office. The children's books and gatherings of essays that would ensure his fame followed with reassuring regularity...