Word: review
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, May 13, I received a call from The Harvard Crimson. The editor who spoke to me told me that your paper was printing a review of A House Divided, the original musical I produced in the Agassiz Theater, and needed to know the name of the director. Attempting to conceal my surprise at this lack of basic information, I gave him his answer--Alexander Franklin--and then mentioned that the director's name was listed in the program. The editor replied that The Crimson had lost the program. (I believe "sort of lost" was the phrase the editor used...
...stop by my room a couple of hours before the show that night, I would not have even known that the photographer was coming, and would have dismissed the actors and crew before he arrived. Ultimately, it made no difference--the single picture was not even printed with the review...
...this book it is that its framing as a vindication of Guinier's qualification for the role from which she was debarred detracts from the interest and complexity of her arguments themselves. The unfairness of her treatment is so obvious from the introduction and foreword that her Law Review articles themselves begin to seem like a rather unwieldy piece of evidence, rather than the main substance of the book. This problem is reinforced by the fact that, although the articles have been adapted for re-publication and each is prefaced by a note of explanation, the text is still...
...court okays then K.O.s author's libel suit vs. bad book review...
Comprising 70-odd pieces from such journals as the New York Post, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic and the current home of his column, New York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning...