Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harshest indictment of the nominee was a four-page, unsigned memo being passed from hand to hand on the Hill that charged Warnke had proposed "unilateral abandonment by the U.S. of every weapons system that is subject to negotiation at the SALT talks." The memo was the work of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, a Washington-based group of moderate Democrats headed by Ben Wallenberg, who has often served as an adviser to Jackson. The organization prepared the criticism of Warnke more than a month ago, when he was mentioned as a possible choice for Secretary of Defense...
What were the reasons for Roots' huge success? Wrote Washington Post Columnist William Raspberry: "The only question remaining on the subject of Roots is: Why? Why did this work become an instant classic, a literary-television phenomenon?" Raspberry finally concluded: "As Louis Armstrong supposedly said when someone asked him 'What is jazz?'. If you have to ask, I can't tell...
...event, if not as history, Roots surely transcends its mistakes. Haley called his saga "faction," and therefore it cannot be evaluated merely as history or merely as an entertainment. As either one of those, it fails. Yet as both, in resonance with the long, complex American experience on the subject, Roots is extremely powerful...
Writers like Frederick Law Olmsted, a Northerner who traveled through the South in the 1850s and wrote three books about Southern life, emphasized the lurid, brutal and simply inefficient aspects of slavery in order to promote the abolitionist cause. This was a Simon Legree approach to the subject-and there are aspects of such simplism in Roots...
Political ideology is certainly relevant or the entire faculty of the Government Department would be unemployed. Why, then, should the mention of sport degenerate any discipline to that of superficiality? It shouldn't. And even though the subject taught by Hoberman required no calculators, it is nonetheless important...