Word: commas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most children's drawings, these have the beauty of the gem raw from the mine. The sun is a spoked yellow wheel, a whale a colossal comma. Cannibals are orange, and look like fierce textiles. Flame is a fluttering rose. Whereas the best professional cartoons-those made by U.P.A. (TIME, Sept. 14)-seem like fine artifice, this one feels like crude...
...such U.S. writers as Alfred Chester and Elizabeth Hardwick that few magazines would try out on their readers. The princess thought they were worth Drinting, and she was right. Poetry is another of the princess' passions, and Botteghe has it in abundance. It ranges from the pretentious, comma-plagued lines of Philippines-born José Garcia Villa...
Away went the Monarchists' 39 votes. And Giuseppe Saragat's 19 non-Communist Socialists, though they favored every word and comma of Fanfani's program, stubbornly stood against him, too. The 14 Liberals stayed aloof...
...STRANGER joining the Kinseys and staff on one of their picnics would never suspect that these nice, comfortable faculty folks were engaged in studies any more stimulating than the use of the comma in Chaucer. Visitors are exposed to the same paradox in Kinsey's plant, which is called the Institute of Sex Research, Inc. The atmosphere is one of surgical asepsis, and each room is as clean and functional as the inside of a clock. Doors are heavy, made of a three-ply, soundproof material, and they have substantial locks. Kinsey carries numerous keys, and his progress from...
...offices of the Herald Tribune on 41 st Street in New York. From there, after an editor has read them with reverent care, the syndicate will siphon the column by airmail and telegraph into prominent papers in Bombay and Des Moines and Dallas and Copenhagen and Halifax. If a comma is misplaced or a paragraph mangled, the editor may hear from Mr. Lippmann. In a couple of hundred newspapers, anxious readers will find in Mr. Lippmann's opinions the balm of certainty...