Word: opinionatedness
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Though Barr was nominally opposed to "the crude lash of competition," he sent his own four sons to the fiercely competitive Horace Mann School, and chipped away at Dalton's progressivism by installing tests to supplement written evaluations of students. In an opinionated article several years ago, he flayed...
A Certain Kind. Jesting or not, the only thing new in the notion is the hyperbole. Theodore White, the chronicler of presidential campaigns, has bemoaned what he calls "the Opinionated Mafia," located within "a one-mile radius of [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, who control 95% of...
Bold, not Bland. In television it can be argued that far from being too opinionated, news is not opinionated and hard-hitting enough. Among the more thought-provoking responses to Agnew was a speech by Fred Friendly to the California Institute of Technology. Urging "bolder, not blander illumination" of issues...
Rhetoric aside, Agnew did touch on a major phenomenon. It is the strange, pervasive love-hate relationship that Americans seem to have with TV-the force that entertains them, unifies them by making them simultaneous witnesses to great events, and yet also brings them words and images they resent. Most...
Goldman's book-chatty, opinionated and often nasty- finally says on paper all those things people in the business have been whispering for years: Goldman shows how theater-party ladies create big box-office receipts for shows involving no visible talent on the basis of a show's title ( How...