Word: friedrichs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article by Otto Friedrich on John Bartlett and the 15th edition of Familiar Quotations [Nov. 3] is delightful and informative, but it is in error regarding the "shrinking" of Shakespeare. In fact, a few quotes have been added to the selection. The larger format and more economical type face of the latest Bartlett'shave saved much space, thus accounting for the discrepancy in pages between the editions...
This week's cover stories on the newly unified and confident Republican Party are only the first half of a journalistic doubleheader. Senior Editor Otto Friedrich had barely sent to press the main story, written by Associate Editor Edwin Warner, when he, Warner and the Nation section's 15 other editors, writers and reporter-researchers left Manhattan to be in Detroit for the opening gavel of the G.O.P. Convention. After several days of observing the political action within and beyond the new Joe Louis Arena, they would return to their offices to prepare a second G.O.P. cover, this...
...turned out to be 43 miles from Detroit in Chatham, Ont., TIME Housing Coordinator Pamela Thompson had to scramble to rent apartments and rooms in a private club closer to the action. At one hotel being considered, a vigilant watch dog named Fifi bit Rauch's assistant, Emily Friedrich. "After covering an acceptance speech or interviewing dozens of delegates, no one should have to cope with Fifi," Friedrich decided, and she struck the establishment from her list...
...story was written by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, whose distinctive TIME Essays have attracted something of a following among readers. Columnist William F. Buckley has described Morrow's style as a blend of "pyrotechnics and lyricism." Says Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, who edited this week's story...
These developments, however, also involved wrenching social changes, as people whose families had lived on the land for centuries moved to often crowded, filthy urban industrial centers. Yet this early capitalism represented for millions an escape from a still more oppressive rural poverty. Even Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto that capitalism "during its rule of scarcely 100 years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together...