Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reader who enjoys listening to amplified street music in Harvard Square (including, hopefully, my performances!) can help to bring about the desired change by writing a single-sentence letter to the Cambridge DTP: "Let the street musicians use amplification...
...looked at the moral scandals surrounding Ivan Boesky, Oliver North and Jim Bakker, and told us there is "a national preoccupation" surrounding ethics--one that will soon bring universities "under scrutiny." He treated the reader to a three-page history of moral instruction in this country. He charted his own "viable program of moral education...
...Griff it has been for much of Thomas Griffith's 45 years in the corridors of Time Inc. For the past twelve years he has been turning out TIME's Newswatch column. Readers who have come to know and respect the column's level-headed analyses of the press and its foibles will not be surprised to learn that the reader comes first in Griffith's mind. "I never considered it my role to defend the press," he says. "I start with the reader's curiosity and concern about the information he's getting. Sometimes this means explaining what...
...scholar of the Enlightenment era, tends to view his subject as a direct descendant of 18th century atheists and rationalists like Voltaire and Diderot. Therefore it is with deepening irony that the reader discovers that by the 1920s, psychoanalysis had begun to resemble a religion. Freud's apostles begat apostates who in turn spawned heresies and a bemusing number of therapeutic sects, each claiming to have a piece of the true couch...
...perfect hero for yuppies with a fondness for culture. In his time, Marvell was an advocate of the carpe diem philosophy, known for his lines to his coy mistress, "Had we but world enough, and time,/ This coyness. lady, were no crime." Here Marvell not only exhorts the reader to seize the day but also to indulge his desires...