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feature writer profiled actor Daniel Day-Lewis. The actor’s father was poet laureate of England; his mother was an actress; his grandfather produced films. “Daniel is certainly to the manner bom.”
• The New York Times carried a reflective piece on racial tensions in urban areas. The writel- offered this troubled observation: “By clinging to slender silver linings, Pollyannas may miss two fundamental concerns about the clouds.”
• On another occasion the Times praised an increase in federal spending on drug treatment and addiction prevention. The new funding will help, but “the gap between needs and services will remain gargantuan.”
• This past March the Rocky Mountain News carried an editorial on punitive damges. “For years giant corporations have lobbied Congress to pass a law shielding therr^ from Brobdingnagian awards.”
• In June The Wall Street Journal grumbled about the prospect that national health insurance would become a federal entitlement. “And like all entitlements it will grow like Topsy.”
• Edwin Diamond, the media critic, wrote about The Times’ past few years with Arthur Sulzberger Jr. as publisher. He referred to “the triad of skin-keep diversity, managerial Demingism, the Downtown chic” that provided limp leadership.
• Writing in The New Republic in January, Andrew Sullivan reported the exhilaration he felt in reading Pope John Paul’s encyclical “Veritatis Splendor.” He had problems with some of the holy father’s arguments, “but I have no problems with its Ratzingerian call for rapturous abandonment to God.”
Very well. In this quiz you grade your own papers. You are the editor. Were the allusions sufficently clear to enough readers to make for effective communication?
For the record: In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” Macduff grieves that his
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