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...pieces we could have picked up at the time." Many of his colleagues disagree sharply. Jim Snavely, a reporter for the Daily Record (circ. 36,001) and president of the Newspaper Guild local, is asking his membership for a resolution condemning the blackout. Daily Record Managing Editor Eli F. Sliver, one of those present when the judge made his extraordinary request, was especially contrite: "I am sorry I made the agreement. I was ashamed of myself the minute after I walked out of the judge's chambers." Record Publisher J.D. Scoggins blamed himself for not taking a firmer stand...
...caricatured geriatricks in some way that might be appropriate to Goneril and Regan in King Lear but is simply hateful in Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Graham Greene once wrote that when trying to refine the pangs and foibles of men and women into fiction, a novelist must have a sliver of ice in his heart. A sliver of ice, yes. A lump of black bile, no. > Timothy Foote
...comfortable pop sociology the book is a failure, too. The sliver of life Prescott concentrates on was small, and almost incomprehensible without being placed in some sort of context. And he makes no attempt to develop a context. He just chronicles his own activities...
Jenkins, who has poured in 14 points per contest, bounced back from a six-pointer performance against B.C., for a 20-point game that sunk the Bruins. Jenkins & sliver, Inc., outrebounded Brown...
...degree. After leaving the department in 1961, he ran for the city council in his racially mixed neighborhood; he won and has stayed in the 15-member council ever since. He always seems to be the same man under any conditions, representing, says an admirer, the "black sliver of the white puritan ethic...