Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prejudices at the outset. First off, erudite t.v. strikes me as a contradiction in terms, and for that reason, WGBH rarely gets my vote. I prefer the hyperdramatic, particularly those wonderful best seller series with tons and tons of power struggles, crises, sex and the like. The standard fare--situation "comedies" and "dramatic" series--leaves me cold...
...once unique Times going the way of the standard American newspaper? If so, the direction it is heading in is well exemplified by the Washington Post. Ask A.M. Rosenthal, the Times's executive editor, to name the best American papers and he will tell you. "The Times-space-the Washington Post -space-and then the others." The Post's executive editor, brash Ben Bradlee, agrees, although he thinks his own paper in some ways better. Bradlee envies the Times its careful editing, its good desk work, its "cruising speed." But he also finds the Times "too constipated...
...Washington Post is an ordinary American paper that willed itself to be better. It still carries much of the standard dreck-lovelorn columns, horoscopes, beauty hints-as well as 25 comics. But to this compost heap the Post has added solid and penetrating reporting and an engaging flair...
...Beckett's career, which began when he served as an aide to James Joyce and was capped in 1969 by a Nobel Prize, can be seen as a long, inexorable process of writing himself into a corner of silence. From the start, he was profoundly uninterested in the standard material of literature: heroes and heroines, simulacra of daily reality, incidents, resolution, endings happy or otherwise. Instead, the Dublin-born author seized with Irish tenacity a single perception: reductio is always ad absurdum. At the bottom of every problem, no matter how logically pared down to essentials, lies the abyss...
Shirley Ann Grau is now 47 years, five novels and two short-story collections old. She is, by any reasonable standard, a successful writer. Critics generally admire her work. The Keepers of the House won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965. Her sales chart is not dramatically craggy, but rises to a respectable plateau of long-term gains. Moreover, Grau has managed her career while raising four children as the wife of a philosophy professor in suburban New Orleans...