Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trillin says the subject has a lot to do with the way it seems sensible to him to write it. In his 15 years at the New Yorker, Trillin has reported on a wide range of subjects. Murders. A Chinese town in California bought by a Hong-Kong developer. Integration of Atlanta schools in the fall of '61. The idea of foodwriting, he said, came to him as a sort of "comic relief...
According to the documents, Carter's Cabinet meetings include a staggering array of subjects, as many as 52 main topics and 80 subtopics on Nov. 7, 1977. This was one of the longer meetings (1 hr. 53 min.); nonetheless, the Cabinet could spend an average of only 2 min. 10 sec. on each subject. This compression may discourage debate and encourage banalities, like U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's recorded statement on Oct. 17,1977-in its entirety -that "a very troublesome problem facing the international community is the energy issue...
...eyes only" message. In it, Rogers confessed that he had "struck out." There would be no new four-star billet for Walker. He could take a demotion and an assignment as a lieutenant general. Or he could retire. All three-and four-star generals hold temporary rank and are subject to losing as many as two stars if suitable assignments cannot be found for them. It is a rare reality of military life, not one likely to happen to a Sam Walker...
...region illustrated and described by Brian Froud and Alan Lee owes more to sensuality than to the sentimentality that usually surrounds the subject. As the foreword suggests: "Faeries are themselves creatures of the raw stuff of life and are ceaselessly attracted to all forms of creativity and particularly to moments of high emotion in which they seek to be participants. Lovers, poets, artists, writers, sculptors, weavers, musicians and the like-all the arts, indeed, acknowledge a debt to an unidentifiable, invisible, capricious, sensitive, delicate, elusive and powerful force which is called 'inspiration,' or 'Muse...
Hanging up the phone, Moore turns to the subject of football...