Word: critically
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...initial backing for the U.S. Government's plan to send Cuban and Haitian refugees to Fort Allen, a reopened military base in the southern part of the island. Even though no refugees have been transferred there, the plan angered many Puerto Ricans, and Romero hurriedly became a bitter critic...
...Seuss), "The time taken to watch the screen certainly detracts from time to read books. But the paradox is that good kids' books are selling more than ever." Indeed, the broken rhythms of television seem to have encouraged certain forms of literature. "Ten years ago," says Poet and Critic Karla Kuskin, "when I read verse to third-graders their attention span seemed" even shorter than usual. Today they seem attracted to the concentrated image and the fragmented line...
...consumer advocates have been replaced by oil company executives and geologists. Reagan's main cicerone through the tangled thicket of energy policy is Michel Halbouty, 71, an unpolished and sometimes profane wildcatter who looks like the suave character actor Vincent Price. Reagan last August appointed the feisty critic of government regulation as chairman of his Energy Policy Task Force. Since then, Halbouty has been able to recruit an impressive roster of corporate chieftains from Shell Oil, Standard Oil of California and Du Pont to serve with...
...York City furrier, a student in Paris during the '20s, newspaperman, war correspondent and three-time husband, lastly to the late short-story writer Jean Stafford. Wayward Reporter tells more about the writer's work than about his life. Yet Sokolov, a New York journalist and restaurant critic, conveys the essential craftsman and gourmand who sopped up the life around him with the same melancholy hunger he displayed at lunch...
Anthony Burgess's versatility is indisputable. He is a novelist, playwright, composer and linguist, as well as a critic whose dissenting views on modern culture have frequently boiled over into newspapers and magazines. But Burgess, 63, is no club Tory grumbling behind his Times and Spectator. He is a rugged, independent Christian humanist who confronts an age that has depersonalized and secularized his values. Such novels as The Doctor Is Sick, Devil of a State and A Clockwork Orange are not only cautionary satires but examples of Burgess's flair for Joycean wordplay and knack for turning...