Word: slant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read with interest Wednesday's article on the McNamara and Shamie campaigns. As a member of the Harvard Republican Club and one who has followed the McNamara effort quite closely. I was pleased to see the coverage yet concerned about the misleading slant of the article...
...role of any responsible chronicle to truthfully inform educate its readers so as to enhance the community, yet the Crimson seems bent on degrading and humiliating Third World students at Harvard. Rarely have we noticed an article written about minorities that did not have a negative slant. A standout example was the 1980 editorial piece accompanied by random photos of Black students onto which bars (suggesting criminality) were later superimposed. The plaintiffs field a law suit against the Crimson and settled out of court. But although that battle was won, how can full reparations ever be made to the integrity...
...interview with the Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, the President continued his recent criticism of the way the American press and television have been covering his Administration. Previously he had spoken to TV Guide of a "kind of editorial slant" in TV reporting of El Salvador that "challenges what we are doing there." In Oklahoma City, Reagan charged that the press and TV are exaggerating the effects of the current recession. "Is it news," he demanded, with a flash of anger, "that some fellow out in South Succotash* has just been laid off, that he should be interviewed nationwide...
...already beginning to slant low as we head toward the volcano. Smoke trails in long plumes from a dozen places on the mountainside. We come in over a cluster of bombed-out buildings, low enough to see through the gaps in the crushed orange tile roofs. The first cracks of ground fire come up at us, and the door gunners rear from their seats in their harnesses on either side of the chopper and shoot back. The ship reverberates with the sound of alternating bursts of fire, left and right...
...Columbia University described the reading of Howl as a hoot [Dec. 7]. I'm sure that Ginsberg and many other people realize that excesses took place in the late '60s and find some humor in them. But Reporter Henry apparently views this humor with a disparaging slant that induces readers to avoid the valid social questions arising from those turbulent times. These issues are what Howl is all about...