Word: sampler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many syndicated Washington columnists respond so predictably to events that they are merchandised to newspapers as liberal or conservative voices, as if editors needed a handy guide on how to balance their opinion pages. But all columnists sometimes react in unexpectedly revealing ways. A sampler of how columns are tilting this summer...
...Sampler from Irving's New Novel...
...when the cheerleaders began their routines, the Band came up with its own set of cheers. A sampler...
...program and read, 'Commencement address: Dizzy Gillespie.' I was terrified. Everybody knows a jazz trumpeter's instrument doesn 't wake up until 10 at night." In short, as usual, through the gloom there came notes of hope, idealism and humor as well. A commencement sampler...
...collection of short pieces. As a profile of the U.S. psyche, three main characteristics emerge: a mercurial violence simmering just beneath the surface of everyday life, bizarre, zany, irrepressible humor, and wistful reverie about the past or the future. Americans like to dream out loud. Herewith, a sampler...