Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What were the reasons for Roots' huge success? Wrote Washington Post Columnist William Raspberry: "The only question remaining on the subject of Roots is: Why? Why did this work become an instant classic, a literary-television phenomenon?" Raspberry finally concluded: "As Louis Armstrong supposedly said when someone asked him 'What is jazz?'. If you have to ask, I can't tell...
...Harvard Law Forum, to be held on Thursday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. at Ames Courtroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School. Wilson's co-panelists will be Joseph Jordan, your average Boston Police Commissioner, and George V. Higgins, former District Attorney and now your average Real Paper Columnist. Admission...
...rare occasion indeed when a rock columnist can bury the hatchet-pen, and unequivocally sing the praises of a rising group with the potential for world-beating success. I sing today specifically of the Ramones, a neat, clean-cut group of young men--none could be more than 19--who hail from Forest Hills, New York. Forest Hills has spawned a great number of talented rock performers in its day--among them Sam the Sham and two of his Pharoahs, and two of the Four Seasons--but few of those people could boast the unique combination of sex appeal (good...
...more of this "later" stuff, --Bernie from Bayonne the new Rock columnist...
Overall, the Post is better written with a pervading sense of self-deprecating irony. The Times, like a baseball manager who sends in a designated hitter, achieves its lighter effects with designated humorists: Israel Shenker, who merrily wanders the halls of academe, or Columnist Russell Baker, the best satirist in the American press. The Post's daily Style section takes itself less seriously than does the Times in its cultural coverage; but then in Washington there is less to take seriously, even if you add in the Kennedy Center and the Hirshhorn Museum. The Style section's reportorial...