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Bill Kovach, who has served as the curator of the Nieman Foundation since 1989, will resign his post effective next June, according to a letter he sent to the foundation's advisory board earlier this week...
...expressed his feeling that no matter how hard he tries to keep up with the times, his 10 years away from the newsroom have left him out of touch. The Nieman Foundation, he wrote in his letter to the advisory board, is ready for "an upgrade...
...think that the greatest example of casual, social cruelty I can imagine is laughing at a sincere love letter. It is the moral equivalent of knocking change out of the hand of a beggar: a pointed and cynical response to declared vulnerability. What prompts us to mock sentimentalism in the public sphere--what makes it morally acceptable to make fun of Celine Dion's music, for instance--is the suspicion that such music is itself a form of cynicism, a manipulation of America's overwhelming urge towards the saccharine. You get the sense that when Dion and her kind...
...clever put-downs I have ever read; when its negativity is contrasted with Purdy's obvious and infectuous enthusiasm for the many things he loves and praises, the review also begins to seem strikingly sad. In his preface, Purdy boyishly admits that his book is "one young man's letter of love": it is this vulnerability that makes Purdy a moving and an effective narrator. That Purdy's sincerity can become overbearing, that it can devolve into sentimentalism, is acceptable collateral damage, an occupational hazard of writing from the heart. It is one of the occupational hazards of being...
...delivered him to Greenough and after about four days, we received a letter," Jeremy Knowles says. "He was one mile from home, 200 yards from my office, 300 yards from his mother's office--we got the point...