Word: criticism
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That's the only word that can describe my reaction when I opened to the second page of the February seventh copy of the Crimson to be confronted by "campus critic" Matthew H. Joseph's "Spring Fever" commentary...
...portraying a U.S. turned into a wasteland by repressive Soviet invaders, Amerika will undoubtedly provide support for conservatives who advocate constant vigilance against the Soviet threat. Indeed, the project was spurred by complaints about ABC's controversial antinuclear drama The Day After. In a 1983 newspaper column, Author and Critic Ben Stein (The View from Sunset Boulevard) proposed that to balance that film's allegedly liberal tilt the network ought to make a movie about what life in the U.S. would be like under a Soviet regime. Brandon Stoddard, then head of ABC movies and mini-series and now programming...
...housing. When vouchers were offered to low-income families there, 62% were returned unused: even with federal assistance, the families still could not find decent, affordable places to live. "The voucher system would make sense if there were housing," says Democratic Congressman Thomas Downey of Long Island, an outspoken critic of the program. "But there is just not enough. It doesn't in any way address the problem...
Salinger, 68, had refused from the first to cooperate with Hamilton, literary critic for the Sunday Times of London and biographer of Poet Robert Lowell. When he was sent galleys of J.D. Salinger: A Writing Life, Salinger objected to the extensive use of letters to, among others, Ernest Hemingway and Judge Learned Hand. The correspondence, gathered primarily from university libraries, sometimes shows him at his most scabrous. In one passage cited in the court opinion, a young Salinger vented his anger after Oona O'Neill, whom he had dated, married Charlie Chaplin. "I can see them at home evenings...
Although political dissidents in Yugoslavia enjoy a measure of freedom unusual in Communist countries, they are rarely permitted to travel abroad. Thus it came as a surprise last week when the Belgrade government issued a passport to its most vociferous critic, Milovan Djilas, 75. The internationally renowned author, a founder of Yugoslavia's Communist system and a top aide of the late Josip Broz Tito's, had been denied a passport for nearly 17 years...