Word: crookedness
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The center was founded in 1978 by its present president, Philosopher Charles Frankel, with a $625,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Bennett must regularly remind himself, "What are we doing for the public?" Sometimes he is part of the response. A Harvard Law School graduate, he...
Halberstam's basic problem in writing about media power comes down to his extravagant hyperbole of language, which, time and again, overwhelms his command of narrative and the telling (and telling, and telling) anecdote. In the relatively unploughed terrain of Los Angeles Times history (the most interesting parts of the...
Mike Royko, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, accepting the role of a crooked alderman in a TV film: "Never having seen an honest alderman, I wouldn't know how to play one."
A wag named Philip C. Thibodeau of Dedham was all for the O'Halloran plan. "It's an extremely crooked river," said he. "The name Curley River would be most appropriate. We could settle for one of the more crooked sections of the Charles, preferably in a Democratic...
To a young relative who missed him during a visit: I hear that you are dissatisfied because you did not see your uncle Einstein. Let me therefore tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny beginning of a paunch. In addition an awkward gait, and...