Word: opinionatedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As Ralph Hone reveals in his biography of Sayers, she was eccentric, private and opinionated ("Everything she said was a statement, almost an edict," a friend testified). Her minister father began to teach her Latin when Dorothy was barely seven. Her talent for languages lingered: in 1915 she took first...
But Michael J. O'Neill, editor of the New York Daily News (he is also a chairman of the editors' committee that commissioned the Yankelovich survey), accepts the recent shift to personal journalism. He has introduced "people" and "lifestyle" pages to his paper, and to his staff has...
In his visit to the Business School last Wednesday, Steinbrenner showed why he is now the country's pre-eminent sports executive. He is like the other owners, only more so. Opinionated, glib, self-serving, and ferociously self-righteous, Steinbrenner loves sports and he loves business, but most of all...
With chains now controlling 71% of daily circulation, the absentee owners prefer bland, trouble-free editorial pages. Only outside columnists are allowed to be noisy, querulous and opinionated. Even here, chain management usually dilutes the effect with a "spectrum" of opinion, in a look-no-hands neutrality between conservative, liberal...
Verdi: La Traviata (Deutsche Grammophon, 2 LPs). Conductor Carlos Kleiber gives a fresh, strikingly opinionated reading of an opera that is usually ill-served.