Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every TIME writer cherishes some favorite puns he has managed to get into print. Richard Burgheim takes credit for calling the book Peyton Place a "peeping tome," while Alwyn Lee related in a book review how "the critics have been whooping it up in the Malamud salon...
...came a fare hike, and neither of them endeared him to voters. Faced with an empty treasury, he imposed a new city income tax and made the New York Stock Exchange consider exile across the Hudson because of an increased stock-transfer tax. His cherished civilian-controlled board to review complaints against the police was ignominiously defeated 2 to 1 at the polls in November. Even nature seemed to be conspiring against him last month when a canopy of poisonous smog mantled the city for three days...
Last week Stewart again dissented when the court refused to review the Connecticut case of John DeJoseph, charged with criminal nonsupport. Two Hartford judges denied DeJoseph's requests for indigent's counsel because the charge was only a misdemeanor; DeJoseph tried to defend himself and went to jail for six months. By contrast, a Connecticut federal court recently freed another man who had been jailed for exactly the same offense, simply because the state failed to tell him that he had a right to a lawyer. Said Stewart: "When the meaning of a fundamental constitutional right depends...
...like Andrew T. Weil '64, former editor of the Harvard Review, who will teach "Exposition and Scientific Methods" this spring, remain convinced that "almost all Harvard undergraduate writing is bad" and will continue to emphasize basic stylistic virtues. More often, though, the middle group courses start by assuming technical competence...
John Simon, drama critic for the Hudson Review, disagreed, insisting that "the function of a critic is to be a teacher and an artist...