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...network television news, ABC employs one black among its 45 correspondents. NBC estimates that of its 60-odd nationwide correspondents about a dozen are black. CBS does not release specific figures. Among magazines, the Reader's Digest has only one black on its masthead, Look five, LIFE five. Newsweek has ten blacks among its editors, correspondents and researchers; TIME...
...left and right, and so he has been. Yet his love of the provocative phrase and the unorthodox idea is so irrepressible that his numerous memos to the President are the kind of documents that inspire huzzahs of approval or howls of censure, depending upon the perspective of the reader. They also seem to have wide appeal and, unlike most private memos, actually reach millions. Lately, Moynihan's flamboyant prose has somehow managed to leak right past the President and into the public domain...
...simply, "In the beginning." The second verse of Genesis, Driver points out, clearly indicates that the water was already there when the creation of heaven and earth began. For another, he explains, "we wanted to make it clear from the start that we were giving the reader a fresh translation...
...most good traditional novels, one identifies with the characters and, in a sense, enters their lives. In Nog, there is only one character, and the reader's identification is so complete that the two minds-reader's and character's-virtually become one. The book's outlook-for the character is the book-is not an outlook that you rationally recognize and file away. It is a type of perception that you necessarily adopt. And while stories built around gimmicks, Nog's effect lasts after the first reading...
...expansion of the novel's meaning, Wurlitzer resembles Thomas Pynchon, who also wrote a book in which the reader adopts the protagonist's emotion instead of merely sympathizing with it. In The Crying of Lot 49, the plot contains a possible conspiracy that you see as a possible conspiracy existing in your life in exactly the same sense as it exists in the novel. The intellectualized emotions contained within the book are generalized outside of it in a way that does not usually happen...