Word: guardians
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...terms of improving the world, Blumenfeld still considers the pen mightier than the sword, having editorialized on Bush’s policies in The Times of London, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He has also participated in anti-war marches in England, his first experiences as an active demonstrator...
...young men smoking skunk and watching telly, wandering from pub to kebab shop, filled with an anger as aimless as it is insistent. Yet Skinner's audience stretches far beyond those lads. American kids have taken him in like some exotic distant cousin, and one academic in Britain's Guardian even likened him to Dostoevsky and Pepys, while pondering that "the narrative is constructed round Christ's parable of the lost piece of silver." Skinner's reaction: "I don't read the Guardian." The gap between Skinner and his higher-brow fans is telling; indeed, it's almost the point...
...nuisance,' Britain's Guardian wrote of its U.S. correspondent, Alistair Cooke. 'He telephones his copy at the last moment. He says that he will be in Chicago and turns up in Los Angeles ... If all his colleagues were like him, production of this paper would cease.' But, the Guardian conceded, 'we think he's worth it.' Most of Alistair Cooke's readers and listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC ... Since his BBC broadcasts are beamed...
...thoughts and semi-porn shots called sex.” With her first children’s book, The English Roses, Madonna was said to “go between the covers again, only this time it’s strictly kids stuff.” Perhaps the Guardian put it best in the title of an article on author-Madonna: “Pop icon, writer, whatever...
...compass for the President; she's true north." Other insiders say privately that Hughes did more than shape Bush's message when she was in the White House. Within a circle of advisers dominated by conservatives, Hughes ended up the de facto moderate on domestic policy. She was the guardian of Bush's "compassionate conservative" image and was constantly pushing to have the President focus and speak out on issues like health care and education. She pestered him so often about the environment that Bush dubbed her a "lima green bean." His other nicknames for her: High Prophet (a play...