Word: sanest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is the second and apparently the final volume in the autobiography of Britain's best literary critic as well as one of its wisest and sanest men of letters. Pritchett's elegant prose and range of knowledge might suggest that he is a product of a proud public school and Oxford. But in Volume 1, A Cab at the Door, he wrote of a decidedly lower-middle-class upbringing as the child of feckless and eccentric parents...
...corner offices of the networks. He did so in 1970, which, to be sure, was not an average year. It was a period of attacks by Vice President Agnew, of diminishing revenue from cigarette advertising, of unusual audience volatility. The result of Brown's endeavors is the sanest-and the saddest-book ever written about television...