Word: portray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books are basically alike, particularly in their insistence that they portray the way things really are. In truth, they are more of a badge cadge. Michael Korda, Simon & Schuster's editor in chief, has said of the new cop books, "The prime element is that they suggest a simpler world." Exactly so. To keep it that way, the authors rigorously suppress untidy complexity. Mrs. Uhnak's novel ends in a hasty melodramatic knitting of loose strands. Maas' reportage resolutely refuses to go beyond Serpico's own viewpoint. Whittemore is worst of all, portraying his heroes without...
...pathetic feature of Prof. Bell's letter centers on his extraordinary effort to portray himself as a model black faculty member at my expense. This tactic is so cheap that it warrants little comment, save that is is the stock-in-trade of those intellectually and academically dubious. Indeed, no small part of the crisis of black students at Harvard is the exploitation of their situation by black faculty members like Prof. Bell (and some black administrators too) whose presence at Harvard has more to do with their political skills than their scholastic and intellectual reputations. Martin Kilson Professor...
Alch said last week McCord's testimony was falsified in an attempt to "get Nixon." McCord, a former CIA official, testified of White House pressure to portray the Watergate break-in as a CIA plot. In exchange for corroborating that story, McCord would have received executive clemency, John J. Caulfield, former White House staff testified. The CIA had previously been linked to a 1971 break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
...have pointed out to many people, the Lifestyles section is 40 pages long, not eight. It includes three articles and three photo essays, not just the eight page color section. Look at the Table of Contents. Furthermore, I cannot understand why everyone is so excited about these pages. They portray a party -- different aspects of a party. Parties are one aspect of life here. If you keep that in mind, you might have a chance of understanding this section. People at Harvard and Radcliffe drink, they smoke dope, they dance, they play chess, occasionally they pass out on a couch...
...uptake, and the results are none too exciting. That memorable exception, though, surpasses anyone's wildest dreams -- the already famous color sequence (one of seven) titled "Lifestyles." Both the managing editor and the business manager of the book appear in this section, and the lifestyles they helped portray include dancing, drinking, playing chess while drinking, smoking dope, holding hands, passing-out-on-the-couch from drink (or possibly from the combined lifestyles of drink and dope), and making love. I realize the editors of 337 invested a lot of time and thought in the book, and maybe they have their...