Word: authorization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...caption in yesterday's Crimson incorrectly identified the man in the photograph. The man pictured on page 5 was not the author William Donahue, but American Civil Liberties Union President Norman Dorsen...
INHERENT in my coming forward in print was a kind of familial betrayal--what Richard Rodriguez might call a "sin against intimacy." Later, when I asked the controversial author about the power of writers to stir thought, he responded under his breath that "writers have only the power to offend..." I have obviously done that...
...weeks ago, a letter slipped under my door brought news that there is at least one Harvard Chicano who is glad that I examined a case that so many others would rather ignore. The author thanks me kindly for writing the editorial in the Times. The letter reads with sincerity. In it, I hear the voice of a friend for the first time since his arrest, conviction and imprisonment...
...contemporary saint. His latest biographer notes with some bemusement that there is a kind of shrine to his memory at Illinois' evangelical Wheaton College: one of his old tankards is enclosed there in glass, like a relic. But difficulties face those who would canonize the author of Mere Christianity and the Narnia chronicles. A.N. Wilson, a British writer who has previously taken sensitive measure of Milton, Tolstoy and Hilaire Belloc, portrays Lewis as a blustery, hard-drinking eccentric whose private life included sequential liaisons with two married women...
Caro deflates for good the legend Johnson puffed up of himself as a war hero. Equally damaging are the author's investigations into the source of what would become L.B.J.'s fortune. Johnson always insisted that the purchase of Austin radio station KTBC and the lucrative empire it spawned were solely due to the good business sense of his wife Lady Bird. That, Caro proves, was not the story. Congressman Johnson pulled strings, twisted regulatory arms to obtain a better broadcast frequency and more power, and involved himself with % all aspects of the business, including pressuring advertisers and hiring announcers...