Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tail bashes the next, then weigh in with an exhaustive account of an unknown couple throwing a party to celebrate their divorce. The section, although sometimes self-indulgent and verbose, attracts much of the best prose in the Post, especially from Columnist Henry Mitchell, Feature Writer Myra MacPherson, Book Critic Jonathan Yardley and TV Critic Tom Shales. Nonetheless, the paper's culture coverage is spotty and seems driven more by the tastes of particular Post writers than by the interests of the reader...
...columns the same grace and punch he gave the paper's Washington bureau, and Washington Reporters Tom Oliphant and Curtis Wilkie are highly respected. Baseball Writer Peter Gammons may be that sport's most influential daily chronicler. Among other assets: Columnist Ellen Goodman, Humorist Diane White, Music Critic Richard Dyer and Editorial Writer Kirk Scharfenberg...
Editor James Squires, 41, a former Washington bureau chief who returned to the Trib in July 1981 after a five-year stint as top editor of the company-owned Orlando Sentinel, sees himself as the paper's "biggest fan and most severe critic." He has brought verve and consistency to layouts, unified the scattershot staffs, and pressured editors to ensure communication between reporters covering related stories-a problem at other dailies. Vows Squires: "We are coming into our own as an investigative paper...
...sniper attacked children at a Los Angeles elementary school. But the Times has room for individual stars. Interestingly, for a paper with a heritage of partisan Republicanism, some of them are candidly liberal. Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson leads a savvy staff; Editorial Cartoonist Paul Conrad is a blunt critic of U.S. foreign policy...
This paradox, he argues, is the source of a "splintering of styles"-the varied voices poets adopt when addressing the self and their own subjectivity. It is also the source of the critic's problems with judging poetry. Generalizations often prove useless or silly when applied to specific poets. Instead of glib categories, critics should produce analyses of the problems unique to the new poetry and assessments of poets as poets, rather than as representatives of their not-yet-defined generation...