Word: gimlets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TEST by Nicholas Lemann. Each year, the Scholastic Assessment Test determines where hundreds of thousands of high school seniors will go to college. Lemann shows how this process developed and casts a gimlet eye on the concentration of so much power in so few hands. Is this any way to run a meritocracy...
...forth. It seemed useless to go on with it." At this point, Wolfe's inborn personal reticence became an obstacle to his recovery. He once told an interviewer that he would not take his troubles to his best friend, and he has, in print, cast an unwaveringly gimlet eye on all the therapy manias of the age. "The Me Decade" was his much-quoted and derogatory sobriquet...
...editors of the New Republic, the famously vociferous magazine of Washington opinion, like to think of themselves as a gimlet-eyed bunch. But when it came to reporter Stephen Glass, their vision was blurred. They regarded Glass, an eager and soft-spoken young man of 25, as a rare talent, able to land the kind of juicy fly-on-the-wall stories that make editors light up. "Steve was someone who could get into rooms other reporters couldn't get into, and come away with quotes and anecdotes the others couldn't get," says Glass's mentor, former New Republic...
...provide: that of course the better angels of Clinton's nature are in bed with his devils, that each side requires the other, that his political gifts can't be separated from his personal flaws. Idealist and cynic, moralist and seducer, truth teller and liar, misty-eyed romantic and gimlet-eyed backstabber--it's all one package. Maybe the right leader for now is the one who will stop at nothing, the one who can be absolutely sincere while lying through his teeth...
There was something of the same slightly menacing feel in a lot of Riis' pictures too--in those gimlet-eyed men he showed lurking around the flophouses where he photographed. But Riis tried to reassure his middle-class audience that these people were "the other half," fishy characters or hapless unfortunates, but in either case nothing like themselves. Weegee knew that his tabloid readers were often not so different from the people in his pictures. And he was sufficiently unmoved by the pieties of concerned photography--let's just say that the nobility of the common...