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...those? Of those what? The adjective in a noun's disguise was Goldhagen's awkward way of concealing from innocent readers that I had been writing of officers only...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: A Holocaust of Scholarship | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...along with full-time fact-checkers--was to verify every fact in every written sentence that went into the magazine. I was to note that I had checked each word by placing a dot over it (and by placing a dot over each letter of every proper noun to show that I had verified the spelling). In an article about the construction of the Panama Canal, for example, a caption read, "A seventy-five-foot-high canal lock gate swings shut at Gatun...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Dangers of the Printed Word | 11/22/1996 | See Source »

...closed." In her chapter about the opening of the Stasi files, Kramer focuses on a poet, Alexander Anderson, who is a devotee of French literary criticism. When informing on a fellow poet named Uwe Kolbe, he "supplied the Stasi with the bewildering news that Kolbe was 'relieving the noun of its burden ... with phonetic adjectival exaggerations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: EAST IS EAST, WEST IS WEST | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...night belonged to Berry. On one comment card, a student wanted to learn more about the Nutrition Bites cards throughout the dining halls: "Is 'bites' a noun or a verb...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Faculty Show Talents at AIDS Benefit | 12/1/1995 | See Source »

...members of the Palestinian Higher Education Council. Some health-care professionals are outraged that Fathi, the head of the Palestine Red Crescent and the chairman's younger brother (and spitting image, sans beard and kaffiyeh), has been assigned a role encroaching on the turf of Health Minister Riyad Za'noun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN A REBEL BE A RULER? | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

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