Word: reader
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Story" but "The Sanchez Story." Unfortunately, the life of a drug connection is not much more interesting than the story of a guy getting drinks for the 13-year olds at a bar mitzvah. Whatever shock value remains in an anecdote about cocaine evaporates after page one, and the reader is left with Sanchez's photographs, many of which are very good...
...Reader for the Blind, Bureau of Study Counsel...
...current crisis is not caused by reader neglect, but is simply a matter of money. Since 1969, the cost of books has soared by 106%. Libraries are funded chiefly by local governments and must compete for their share of revenue with life-and-death municipal services like police and fire departments. "The property tax is a killer," says Edward Chenevert, library director in Portland, Me. Complains Dale Perkins, 46, library director for California's San Luis Obispo County: "We are just one sixty-fifth of the county budget-right in there with mosquito abatement...
Carter's low popular standing has brought on one of those self-conscious self-examinations that the press constantly undergoes: Seeing Carter's troubles, has the press deliberately built up Ted Kennedy? To such an accusation from a Washington Post reader, the paper's ombudsman, Charles B. Seib, pleads not guilty...
...been slowed by gentility. With a head "clouded by kindness and manners and a pride in her relics," she befriends a shop clerk whose companion attempts to plunder her expensive furnishings. That the pair are probably homosexuals escapes Mrs. Bittell; that embarrassment moves her to brave action provides the reader with an unexpected insight into motivation: "She had often, in her quiet way, thought of what she would do if someone attacked her. She had always planned to speak gently and to ask them why they were so unhappy and had they forgotten they were children...