Word: shawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...craft. Thus, when New Yorker Writer Alastair Reid, 58, admitted last week that he had indulged repeatedly in such sleight of hand, he prompted a well-deserved storm of criticism, and an apology from the prestigious and generally scrupulous New Yorker. Said the magazine's editor, William Shawn: "He made a journalistic mistake by our own rules. It hurt no one, it was meaningless, it was done for literary reasons...
Reid's other admitted lapses were less sweeping. In a 1976 report on the decline of a Spanish village, he "removed the specifics" from a description of the place to preserve its privacy; Shawn says the village was recognizable as "a composite." In a 1982 account from Spain, Reid attributed a conversation with an unnamed cab driver to a particular trip, although he concedes that he does not know exactly when it occurred because his notes "have no dates on them." For the magazine's "The Talk of the Town," a compendium of short, quasi-editorial reports...
...several cases, the gap between individuals and the rest of the group seemed insurmountable. Shawn, above all, was someone that everyone liked a good deal, but only eventually grew to realize they could not save. She was instantly likeable, and entered as Lionel's only certifiable celebrity; she had been a regular on the children's television show "Zoom," and was often recognized in the street. She was quiet yet friendly, and everyone considered it entirely in character when on her birthday she gave out presents to everyone else in the dorm. But behind the composure, residents of Lionel soon...
...soup kitchens and doing other volunteer work. Two took jobs at schools, Kathy teaching "survival skills" at a school for blind children, and Rich teaching at a private school in Brookline. Tim went off to Africa to do Mennonite church work. At the other extreme, two Lionel residents, Shawn and Suzy, were both working at Mug and Muffin...
...after a two-and-a-half year absence, although he is not sure what he ultimately wants to do with his life. Daniel is going to work for the City of Baltimore and considering law school, Rich wants to teach high school history. At the furthest extreme, none of Shawn's friends have heard from her since December. Kathy isn't sure, but she thinks Shawn may have simply gone...