Word: slant
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Your Chile story [Nov. 2] has an alarmist and overall negative slant that obscures the solidarity, caution and inner confidence that General Schneider's assassination tested and seemingly proved. It is a time for maximum sensitivity and understanding from the North. The potential for growth of a democracy in Latin America is much more momentous than the foreseeable dangers of repressive leftism. A bumper sticker here says: "Ser Libre Es Participar [to be free is to participate]." This is what most of us believe in here, where I find in informed (non-American) sources guarded optimism and new purpose...
...Cooney has approved a more emphatic ethnic style. A black Muppet, Roosevelt Franklin, has become a star. Miguel (Jaime Sanchez), a Spanish-speaking actor, will be an occasional host. The show will also be less male-oriented; a female writer has been added to give it a more feminine slant...
...insecurity); some of them seemed crushed, fallen, unable to rise. Without seeing Patient D., De Sainte Colombe launched her on a course of therapeutic penmanship. For months, following his instructions, she practiced opening her ovals, elevating her base lines, crossing her Ts firmly, giving everything she wrote a uniform slant. Within a year, D.'s script was totally transformed...
Grover P. Walker, co-chairman of AASU, said last night that the confiscation was a protest against a radical slant which he said was apparent in several articles the paper has printed in the past few months...
Like McLelland's article, most of the writing in The Phoenix combines strict reporting with analysis. Writers do not "slant" their articles according to standard ideological positions-they do seem to "take seriously their responsibility to report on the news with some detachment," as Tarter says. But they are free to express their own opinions in their articles. In this way, they give their articles more perspective, but their writing could repel readers who are not in agreement with them...