Word: topically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helen McDonald (The Life and Times of Tondaleah Rosponowitz) asked, "Why are all these authors here? Is Key West the Paris of the '20s, the Tangier of the '60s?" Residents Thomas Sanchez (Rabbit Boss) and Philip Caputo (DelCorso's Gallery), who had been soberly addressing the topic "War and Peace hi the American Novel," considered the reasons. The true answers He in the words written in Key West, in the poems of Wallace Stevens, or Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, or Thomas McGuane's Ninety-Two in the Shade. Panel discussions...
...last April has been the only hourlong news show on any commercial network, will be cut back to half an hour on Feb. 8, coincidentally Koppel's 44th birthday. At the hour length, ratings sagged. Says Koppel: "We were on a downward spiral." Often the show gave a topic too much time, or jumbled together unrelated segments, some of them less than urgently newsworthy. Admits Executive Producer William Lord: "By thinking larger, we diluted the focus of the show." The biggest roadblocks, however, were local ABC affiliates. When the show expanded, twelve stations dropped it outright and 18 began...
...Campaign '84 series, each of the candidates will speak on his conception of the Presidency. A subsidiary topic will be the three most significant issues each candidate feels will confront the next President. The IOP sponsored a similar series for the 1980 Presidential election...
...tradition of James Q. Wilson and Laurence Tribe '62, the Harvard on topic debate team is once again preeminent in the nation. Following the victory of the squad's top team, composed of senior Jonathan Wiener and Junior Jonathan Massey, at the biggest tournament of the fall season, only the Miami Hurricanes football squad has a firmer grip on a number-one ranking...
There are two forms of debate. Off-topic debate is more familiar to most. It is skin to political debates and stresses eloquence and oratorical skills. On-topic debate, by contrast, is truly the varsity sport of the mind. Comparing it to college bowl is like comparing chess to "Trivial Pursuits...