Word: slant
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...insecurity); some of them seemed crushed, fallen, unable to rise. Without seeing Patient D., De Sainte Colombe launched her on a course of therapeutic penmanship. For months, following his instructions, she practiced opening her ovals, elevating her base lines, crossing her Ts firmly, giving everything she wrote a uniform slant. Within a year, D.'s script was totally transformed...
Grover P. Walker, co-chairman of AASU, said last night that the confiscation was a protest against a radical slant which he said was apparent in several articles the paper has printed in the past few months...
Like McLelland's article, most of the writing in The Phoenix combines strict reporting with analysis. Writers do not "slant" their articles according to standard ideological positions-they do seem to "take seriously their responsibility to report on the news with some detachment," as Tarter says. But they are free to express their own opinions in their articles. In this way, they give their articles more perspective, but their writing could repel readers who are not in agreement with them...
Premonitory Power. Educated at the Sorbonne by Claude Levi-Strauss and armed with an encyclopedic historical knowledge, Renata Adler refuses to allow her writing to slant. The Susan Sontagalongs land at Hanoi or at the movies, seeking a geometry for their preformed conclusions. The Mary McCarthyites seem to go against the grain simply because it is there. Adler maintains a gyroscopic balance-and gets the work done. That work, at its best, has a premonitory power. The best article is last, a report on the National New Politics Convention in Chicago. Gouts of words, pollutions of principle, corrosions of politics...
...attempt to face and understand My Lai, some contributing causes help explain, if not condone. There is, unfortunately, a racial element. To the G.I., the Vietnamese, both North and South, "slant." is a "gook," "dink," "slope".; The terms, often used unthinkingly, tend to shift the object into a thing rather than a person ? and hence something that it is easier to kill...