Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Callous. In Chattanooga, Tenn., police reported that after wearing his socks on his hands to avoid leaving fingerprints during a burglary, Oscar Shelton was identified by a bare footprint...
...retirement pay. The amount of influence exercised on Pentagon people, he said, "is very small-but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist." Besides, retired officers probably have less influence than most people think. "They are really out of it once they leave." Best way to avoid string-pulling temptation, Radford suggested, is to require a standard two-year cooling-off period for retired officers before they engage in direct selling to the Pentagon...
...mountain setting. Director Herbert Graf altered all references to California to read Colorado, hired Soprano Eleanor Steber to sing the role of Minnie the barkeep. To help fill his cavernous outdoor stage, he hired a covered wagon and a troupe of horses from a 4-H club. And to avoid frequent scene changes, he transferred the action in Acts I and III to the outside of the Polka saloon, constructed a typical Hollywood false-front street-all of it heavily anchored down to prevent the set from blowing away in the waspish mountain winds that swirl into the amphitheater every...
...theme: "Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subject in outline, but that every word tell...
...Student White (One Man's Meat, The Second Tree from the Corner) is more than qualified to add his own exhortations to the professor's lecture. Some of White's Strunkian reminders: Do not overwrite. Do not overstate. Do not explain too much. Avoid fancy words. Revise and rewrite. Perhaps above all, shun the modern euphoria of Old Spontaneous Me ("Stay out of the act"). To White, style cannot be separated from sense: "The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one . . . Young...