Word: opinionatedness
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My letters are often sold not as literature but as the material relics of a modern saint, wrote George Bernard Shaw to a friend. "Often, some impecunious journalist asks me to refuse [his requests for material] on an insulting postcard, so that he can dispose of it to a collector...
Lord Rothermere, his brother, a thick-necked caricature of Northcliffe, got the Daily Mail but not the Times. He took a fancy to Hitler and died of cirrhosis as the Luftwaffe's bombs fell on London. The family's impact has faded, but not Northcliffe's newspaper...
The prosecution of the Harrisburg Seven will likely be a sedate enterprise compared with the yammering chaos of the Chicago Seven trial two years ago. There is the Rev. Philip Berrigan in place of the irreverent Abbie Hoffman, and an earnest, reserved Judge R. Dixon Herman instead of the choleric...
Sir: "Opinionated" is the proper word to describe Dean Claude Welch's "critical appraisal" of graduate studies in religion [Oct. 18]. His categorization of the University of California, Santa Barbara program is based on prejudgment supplemented by flimsy, outdated, inaccurate and misread evidence. Dean Welch did not visit this...
This week the American Council of Learned Societies is releasing the first major study of religion graduate programs, prepared by the Rev. Dr. Claude Welch, the dean of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, and financed by the Henry Luce Foundation. Welch not only takes an informed, opinionated look at...