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...particular Sunday night, all kinds of edibles flew through the air with the greatest of ease from one room to the next. A poem commemorated the event, which brought aging graduate John Adams to propose the revival of the practice of flogging students, and a few meaty lines should convey the spirit of the evening...
When you treat events as living things, you must try to convey their color, drama and atmosphere. This effort makes TIME a glutton for detail, which means research...
Precision of wording is necessary in good writing; by choosing words that exactly convey the desired meaning one can avoid: a) duplicity, b) incongruity, c) complexity, d) ambiguity, e) implications...
Actually the titans are Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum to the fellow who clicks his dial from channel to channel hoping to chance upon something more enervating than Howdy-Doody or the lady wrestlers. Justice Frankfurter must have been trying to convey something of this horror and nausea when, in his decision the other day, he expressed the fear that television may be a "new Barbarism parading as scientific progress." He concluded that along with radio, television could no doubt "enlarge man's horizon, but by making him a captive listener it may make for his spiritual impoverishment...
Must your newspaper's critics relentlessly follow their hapless brethren down the road of diluted rot where there is no integrity, no craftsmanship, no clear and vivid expression and where measurements and analyses serve alone to convey the vanity of that elegant man of letters who with perfect taste in every line prides himself in being above his work? Or can the CRIMSON recognize an artistic aim and rise to the occasion of true criticism by doing justice to actor, playwright and their readers who willingly subscribe five cents daily for enlightenment and ask so little in compensation. David...