Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Martin covered the diplomatic and political social circuit and served as a drama and film critic before starting her syndicated "Miss Manners" column, which deals humorously with what she calls a serious issue--social manners: "I am very serious about the need for civility in our society, but I don't think I could write about it seriously," Martin said in an interview yesterday...
...always so, as one speaker recalled, reading reviews from nearly a half-century ago: "Clear as literary gumbo"; "Easy to read as a road sign way down on Miasma River." In 1946 a New Republic critic found Delta Wedding such tough going he did not finish the book. And Diana Trilling said of the same creation that she was vexed trying to determine "how much of my distaste" had to do with the work and how much to do with the culture...
...formed in 1935 in Kansas City, a wide-open town where the beat went on 24 hours a day. Basie, who had been stranded there seven years earlier after the breakup of a vaudeville show he had been traveling with, put together a nine-piece combo. Discovered by Jazz Critic and Record Producer John Hammond shortly thereafter, the Basie band went to New York in 1936. The next year the release of the bouncy One O'clock Jump made the Count a celebrity...
Depth of talent is still the Times's most enviable asset. Its prestige enables it to lure star writers from other papers to routine assignments, from which they must fight to get stories into print. Times columnists and critics automatically become figures of national prominence. Among the best are Humorist Russell Baker, Political Commentator William Safire, Drama Critic Frank Rich and Architecture Critic Paul Goldberger. But the paper's political coverage lags behind the Washington Post's, and its business and sports sections are both weak when compared with those at other major papers. But even with...
...York Times, which is a magnet for authoritative specialty writers, won for criticism by Architecture Critic Paul Goldberger, 33, and for national reporting by Science Writer John Noble Wilford, 50, on topics ranging from astronomy to Star Wars space weapons...