Word: randomly
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...this astonishing biography, Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson (Random House; 552 pages; $28.50), Frady proves that the first concern is valid, if limiting, but that the second, at least in his case, is misplaced. This is as subtle and perceptive a portrait as any black writer could have produced of one of the most complex public figures of our times. Jackson has always combined the moral clarity of a prophet with the grubby opportunism of a jackleg preacher. The tendency among the millions who have watched his career unfold over the past 30 years has been...
Still, dictionaries must face factoids. So, with due sensitivity, the handsome new Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary (2,230 pages; $50), a revised edition of the 1967 family-size version, quarantines about 1,000 examples of jargon, fad words and lamentable journalese and corrals them into a separate "Addenda Section...
Members of the Lampoon were visibly distraught by the burglaries. Former Lampoon President John J. Abbot '96 has been overheard asking random passersby, "What are you doing with my plates...
...Morrison, 65, is more than an example and a comforting presence to hopeful writers. Her long experience, beginning in 1965 as an editor at Random House, taught her how to wield influence in predominantly male and white organizations. It was while working on the manuscripts of her writers that she realized she was not seeing the black girls and women, the straitened circumstances of the communities of her childhood, a dearth munificently filled by her own books and those of her proteges. Since 1989 Morrison has held a prestigious chair in the humanities at Princeton University, a bully pulpit from...
...People really were making the effort to get out and talk to random students they didn't know," she said...