The longtime critic Robert Christgau recently announced that this month's edition of his Consumer Guide column — a grab bag of pithy letter-graded album reviews that appeared for decades in The Village Voice and lately at MSN.com, and that has served as inspiration for generations of critics — will be his last.
Good letters – pithy, original, to the point, of about 250 words maximum – were not held back in the week before the vote.
The reasons are simple — she writes pithy and often witty letters, with a strong conservative point of view.
Is this accidental, a change of policy or don't people write short, pithy, clever and humorous letters any more?
Herman Melville's "Piazza Tales" are as lively and strange as "Moby-Dick"; Nathaniel Hawthorne's tales and sketches are pithier than "The Scarlet Letter"; Henry James's stories, supernatural and otherwise, show a gift for concision along with the master's expected psychological acuity.
Most people familiar with the term think of a meme as a picture, often of a cat, with pithy writing in big white letters.
Pithy priorities are more memorable.
Jean Jackson Seer Green, Buckinghamshire It's clear that brief letters have to be both pithy and witty to have a chance of being printed (Letters, 22 August).
Many of our troops kept notes, diaries -- some pithy, some very meticulous -- wrote letters, drew sketches and kept other accounts of their struggles, suffering and sacrifices, but also of their moments of triumph and even the off-chance romance.
Several hours after Paul's filibuster, the Administration, which has been obfuscating about drones for months, finally delivered a pithy response, in the form of a hand-delivered letter to Paul from Attorney General Eric Holder.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Several hours after Paul's filibuster, the Administration, which has been obfuscating about drones for months, finally delivered a pithy response, in the form of a hand-delivered letter to Paul from Attorney General Eric Holder.
