Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your piece on the American Newspaper Guild convention [July 6], you point a finger of criticism at the Guild's failure to 1) fully organize its field (contracts with only 176 out of 1,750 U.S. dailies) and 2) raise the standards of journalism ("Hardly a word was heard about perfecting the reporter's craft"). As to these sharp critiques we have no bone to pick, but while you are generally correct, you missed a major point in giving the reason for all this...
Extrapolation. In Venice, Italy, confused by recent changes in the U.S. flag, the Excelsior Hotel took no chances, on a Fourth of July poster painted four American Hags, two with 42 stars, two with...
...shown four times a day at the U.S. exhibition opening in Moscow late this week. But when 250 fashion editors of U.S. newspapers and magazines saw a preview in Manhattan last week, 41 of them signed a petition protesting that the half-hour show was "not representative of the American way of life...
...York stage is so tethered to the Broadway box-office that none of the city's 30 playhouses, that constitute the professional American stage, supports theatre culturally or on a long term basis, he added in his speech on "The American Theatre Today...
...lack of writers and actors in the tradition of high comedy, he pointed out, is another failing of American theatre today; and he condemned as mere "journalism" the popular practice of the dramatized novel...