Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major flaws," he need only be witty, clever, slightly sarcastic, and he has done his job. Moreover, he knows that he will have pleased his audience. Almost anyone enjoys reading a well-worded negative review; the piece entertains for awhile, but makes no further claims. The busy and relieved reader feels no obligation to waste time with the book...
...strong points of the book is its unscholarly nature. It's the work of a talented and sensitive reporter, not of an academic. Still, the lack of rigor in his argument is astounding. What's especially disturbing is Shipler's imbalanced cast of characters. He introduces the reader, with few exceptions, to radical Israelis and "moderate" Palestinians...
...Rooney's beat, with no verbal slickery: how doctors can do a heart bypass but not cure a 101 degrees fever, and why do clothing manufacturers put all those pins in new shirts? There is no dazzler at the end; he just stops talking, smiles and waves. The reader is warmed by the happy illusion that he himself could have said all that stuff. Rooney a celebrity? Come on, he's got lint in his pockets just like everyone else...
...recent article on Asian Americans at Harvard ("The Asian Quandary," October 27, 1986). First, I commend the article's author, David M. Lazarus, on the journalistic spirit in which he carried out his research. The issues of Asians Americans at Harvard are very broad and potentially controversial, yet any reader of his work can tell he made a sincere effort to objectively summarize the major idea of his topic...
FORTUNATELY for the squeamish reader, France is also the perfume capital of the world, and as Grenouille becomes an apprentice at a renonwned parfumerie, we are introduced to the more palattable scents of orange blossom, jasmine, clove, and attar of roses...