Word: regarded
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Critics are not news; they never have been. It is axiomatic that journalists opinions should be strictly separated from news, a line that should be scrupulously adhered to both in regard to a newspaper's own pundits and those hired by others. This is particularly true in theater criticism, where only the most pompous critic would claim that his judgment, communicated to thousands of readers, is even marginally more newsworthy than the judgment of his neighbor, who communicates it only to her husband in the seat next to her. The logical extension of this new Crimson policy (which has never...
...such occasions to indulge his penchant for quoting Roosevelt, the hero of his youth, bending to his own purposes one of the famous Rooseveltian phrases about the forgotten man or the generation that has a rendezvous with destiny. The speakers at the F.D.R. commemoration, by contrast, generally regard Reagan as a doctrinaire conservative determined to tear apart the entire Roosevelt heritage...
...Smiths do not regard themselves as members of an elite alternate-energy fraternity, as do many users of airtight wood stoves and expensive solar heating systems. But they are joining a new energy movement. Roughly 3 million Americans will be turning on kerosene heaters in their houses this winter. By 1985, 8 million to 10 million U.S. households are expected to own kerosene heaters to keep cold out and heating bills down. The new machines do not replace central heating but are used as space heaters to warm up just one or two rooms...
...White's lovely fable Charlotte's Web, the literate spider Charlotte saves a pig named Wilbur from execution by spinning blurbs about him in the barn doorway: SOME PIG, RADIANT, and so on. The astonished farm folk put away their thoughts of slaughter; they no longer regard Wilbur as pork, but as a tourist attraction, and even a celebrity who enjoys the favor of higher powers. Sweet Wilbur will survive to grow old in the barnyard. He gratefully sighs, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer...
...during his long march to the White House, Reagan, the hip-shooter, was often called to account. But as President, he is not." Right-wing columnists, such as William Safire, William F. Buckley and George Will, treat Reagan's likability as a useful sales tool, but seem to regard Reagan as too inattentive and superficial a student of the causes they espouse. Approval is somewhat sicklied over with condescension...