Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right, man. You know, I've had it with...
...Brooklyn Museum, right outside the entrance to "Sensation," is a small oil by Thomas Cole, the great 19th century painter who went to America from England as a young man and laid down on canvas the raw grandeur of the landscape as illustration of the new nation's moral power. The picture is easy to miss, a little study of a Christian pilgrim on the verdant knoll of a mountaintop. His arms are outspread, brilliant under a sky ablaze with light and hope...
...detail about failed marriages and lives (we might have been spared some of minutiae on the family members who had less to do with the newspaper), Tifft--a former writer for TIME--and Jones forcefully make the point that the self-effacing Ochs-Sulzberger clan got one big thing right: the need to protect and nurture the paper entrusted to them. Although this book is light on the financial and business detail that would permit a fuller judgment of the family's management of their trust, the story of the Ochs-Sulzberger family makes one want to join the cheer...
...ethnic boundaries. It should be harder to automatically think "black" when the euphemism "inner city" pops up again. Perhaps that is why MacDonald was heckled by Southies at a recent book reading in Boston. Hearing the shock of recognition is almost always a sign that the writer got it right...
...life of me, I can't understand why the Harry Potter books are such a huge craze. They're all right, I suppose, but they seem to me to be a watered-down version of Diane Duane's far superior juvenile Wizard series. STEVE VANDEN-EYKEL New Westminster...