Word: readerly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Enquirer reader? During my editorship, our average was about 4 million per week. So there was no one kind of person. But I always said to my people, Think of Mrs. Smith in Kansas City. I said, She's in her 40s, maybe 50s, and she has children. Our buyers were probably over 80% women because we were selling in supermarkets...
...might think that reading a long appreciation of Phyllis Jenkins would be as useless as learning Esperanto. But in the long view, everything has a use - including Esperanto, as more than one kolera leganto (angry reader) informed me when I made a joke in my last column. It happens that I?m a fan of the language, people; in my youth I had an Esperanto dictionary. And I know that Esperanto was approved as the world?s language by a majority of League of Nations delegates, and denounced by Hitler and Stalin...
...it’s not incredible; this is quotidian. Every day I drive up to a tragedy to talk with people in the worst moments they’ll ever face, because doesn’t the reader deserve a quote from the family as he shovels Fruit Loops into his mouth...
...chapters on how the government tracked and dealt with the threat from al-Qaeda before 9/11 fascinate and dispirit. Ten missed opportunities are identified--four during the Clinton era, six in Bush's first eight months--and each leaves the reader wondering, What if? Late in his presidency, Clinton mused out loud in a meeting that "it would scare the s___ out of al-Qaeda if suddenly a bunch of black ninjas rappelled out of helicopters into the middle of their camp." But Clinton's enthusiasm rarely translated into action. In early August 2001, Bush received his now famous...
...starvation during his rule. "I read some parts with my jaw hanging open," says Brian Myers, an expert on North Korean literature at Korea University in the south of Seoul. "The parallels to the current political situation are really just too obvious even for the most obtuse, literal-minded reader to miss." Kim Jae Yong, an expert on North Korean literature at Wonkwang University in southern South Korea, speculates that Kim may be regarding such scribblings as a relatively harmless way for people to vent: "Literature is a useful safety valve...