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...answer is another clever idea: matching sample persons against the census, to see if they were counted. That is easy to say, but not so easy to do, because the sample will have about 300,000 persons, and the population will be around 250,000,000. The practical result is that a sample person can go unmatched by error," Freedman says...
...Jacobean tragedy, Bussy D'Ambois; a Leonard Bernstein musical, Candide, which Miller says "will have more flavor of the original Voltaire"; and Shakespeare's The Tempest. Also on the roster are Reinhold Lenz's The Tutor, adapted by Brecht, and Alexander Ostrovsky's 19th century Russian comedy Too Clever By Half. "I want to break out of the stale convection current that keeps endlessly recirculating the same old Shaw and Chekhov," says Miller. "We are part of Europe, and there are vast expanses of European literature unknown to London audiences...
...emphasize the clever stylization of the piece simply because I realize that the more creative journalist must regularly hear complaints from some one or other offended faction screaming, "It's not true!" To such denials Mr. Morris might rightly respond, "It's not meant to be perfectly true, only pointed in its essence toward a truth. That is, I am employing the device of hyperbole in order to engage the reader in a daringly venomous attack against the materialism of Dade County." This attack, unfortunately, amounts only to wasted space on your op-ed page, for, both in its reasoning...
Then there's the sponsor of the NASCAR circuit itself--a cigarette manufacturer. Though cigarette advertising is banned from the airwaves, the sponsorship of an entire event is a clever way of getting around...
...mind when you read a Crimson piece like Eric Morris's latest on life in South Florida, "If it isn't worth saying, why say it? "The first thought is, "What is this shit??!!" Is The Crimson a responsible newspaper that prints newsworthy or at least thoughtful or clever editorials, or it a personal forum for irrelevant, unprofessional, pseudo-journalistic drivel like this? Tor Krogius...