Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Varsity Club, Bertagna says. The Varsity Club acts as "a clearinghouse" for the Friends, sending letters, acknowledging contributions, and organizing functions for the athletes-turned-contributors. "It's not the most exciting position in the world," Bertagna says but it makes the Friends more than someone you "just write a check...
...field is Crazy Eddie, the New York-area consumer-electronics chain with the pitchman who raves about "insane" prices and "Christmas sales" in August. Instead of copying the slick style of the ad factories on Madison Avenue, local advertisers churn out low-budget affairs that they often write and produce themselves. Nothing is too ridiculous if it catches a viewer's attention: announcers attack water beds with chain saws or dress up like gorillas and yell, "You'll go bananas!" In some cases, these homemade off- the-wall routines have caused a company's business to increase 100% or more...
...President Harry S. Truman found his wife before the fireplace, burning their letters. "Bess," he protested. "Think of history." She replied, "I have." Fortunately, most of Harry's letters home were spared, thereby enhancing his legacy and helping his daughter Margaret write a gentle, warmhearted biography of the addressee. Harry had to chase Bess, a spirited child of a prominent Independence, Mo., family, for almost three decades before she would marry him. By the time he entered the White House in 1945, she was, he wrote her, "the only person in the world whose approval and good opinion I value...
...participatory journalist, Gail Sheehy makes news almost as often as she reports it. She has been widely criticized for writing nonfiction with composite characters and compressed time. Ten years ago, she made an out- of-court settlement in a plagiarism suit involving her best-selling book Passages. Spirit of Survival is practically all Sheehy, and that is an even bigger problem. Her effort to popularize a psychology of survival is hopelessly muddled by her need to dramatize herself. Sheehy, a middle-aged single mother and the companion of Magazine Editor Clay Felker, jets off to Thailand to write a story...
...Soviet Union are not helpful in illuminating the issues at hand. Like Professor Hoffmann, I dislike fanatics and ideologues of all stripes and hues. As he has taught me and several generations of students and colleagues, the world is very complex. Recognizing that there are more ways to write a bad and dishonest book than being paid to do so hardly takes us down the path of obliterating the differences between liberal societies and their enemies. Liberal societies rest, in part, on the skeptical, conservative, very Tocquevillian, and Hoffmannesque awareness, that human nature finds many ways to fall short...