Word: critically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...drawn largely from interviews of people on the court's sidelines, including some 170 present and former clerks, the bright young law school graduates who serve as the Justices' aides. Little, apparently, came from the several Justices with whom Woodward and Armstrong talked. Even so, the critics note, the narrative is stippled with much detail about the Justices' inner motives and feelings: Potter Stewart's stomach is said to "knot" before a meeting with President Nixon; William Brennan "felt betrayed" at one point; Burger, who never spoke to the authors, "vowed to himself that he would...
...theater critic involves more art than artifice, and thus beggars any sort of laundry-list, classified-ad description. The experience of the critic is the very substance of drama--the interaction of the art with its audiences. As such, what he writes about will always remain in the crepuscular realm of the Moment. The reviewer's job, on the other hand, is relatively simple: he tells his readers whether they should go see a show...
...Longworth may indeed have been the most caustic critic of Washington celebrities in her own long lifetime. A sampler...
...conservation, as they would to any other, with a silent question: Who-me? Such bewilderment is understandable. The truth is that during the nation's rush to mid-century prosperity the notion of individual frugality practically went out of business. "Prodigality is the spirit of the era," Social Critic Vance Packard declared in The Waste Makers 20 years ago. There has been no reason since to change that judgment. "Waste not, want not" has persisted only as a saying, and most people have fallen out of the habit of taking it personally...
...Connally attempting to prove what an amiable fellow he is by jovially first-naming Mike Wallace all through the 60 Minutes program in which Wallace skillfully cuts him up. The first important dustup over press bias has come from Tom Shales, the Washington Post's usually acute television critic. He accused all three networks of having had "a field day playing Get Teddy." He also discovered an unnamed "veteran political observer" to explain it: "There's been so much garbage about how the press loves the Kennedys in recent years that the reporters feel they all have...