Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors set out to write a congressional cousin to to Theodore H. White's Making of the President books. What they would up writing was a long news story. It's a good story, if a bit dull and academic, with neat tables of poll data and primary election results. It will provide nice raw information some day for Government these by the babies that Jim Roosevelt kissed...
...write to correct an impression that I must have given to Arnold Zipper in a telephone conversation about Paul de Man's collaborationist writings. I am appalled that Paul de Man (or anyone else) could have held and expressed a view of cultural homogeneity that entailed anti-Semitism, and I am greatly distressed that he was an uncritical participant in a vicious time. The fact that the later de Man manifested no trace of anti-Semitism and fought against facile political totalization does not, for me, excuse his earlier writings. Barbara Johnson Professor of French and Comparative Literature
...Superintendent, we have jobs for your young people. If they can read or write, we'll hire them," Wilson said businesses have told him. He said businesses will recruit in suburban school districts or Boston private schools if no qualified students are found in the public school system...
...pupil in structure and theory. He paid with money from a fellowship and stretched the funds by living in bohemian disorder in his father's dining room. Next he tried to break into show business. A few painful years of struggle -- scraping up auditions that led to more auditions, writing and rewriting a show that never got staged because the producer died, going out to Hollywood to write scripts for the TV sitcom Topper -- ended in triumph when his lyrics for West Side Story established...
...Bush chooses to offer is the flat observation, "To this day, like every parent who has ever lost a child, we wonder why." One mentions this incident not to fault Bush but to highlight the difficulties in trying to assess the meaning of life experiences. No one can write about Bob Dole without discussing his withered right arm and the three years he spent in military hospitals recovering from his war wounds. But reporters with no better qualifications than a few college psychology courses should be chary about pronouncing judgment on the relationship between his suffering and his fitness...