Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate for the photographic board is given opportunity, equipment, and patient criticism. The high standards of CRIME photographers can be seen in this week's Life and in the picture of Adlai Stevenson which is on his campaign posters...
Photographers will find CRIMSON standards high, but the results pleasing. The photo board welcomes the student with a good eye and a steady hand. The Crime provides equipment and good advice...
...slavey and general grab bag at the local hash house. 1984. (Holiday; Columbia). Things to come, as George Orwell saw them in his clever antitotalitarian tract, written in 1949, have assumed a horrifying political shape by 1984. The State is everything, terror is normalcy, love is a crime. Political shapes, however, are not the kind that lure millions to the movies, even in an election year. What's more, the camera has not yet been invented that can take a picture of an idea, and Orwell's book was a tissue of ideas-even his characters were...
Wolfe knew his literary defects as well as any of his critics. Of his prolixity, he confessed that if he were reporting a crime, "the murderer would be in Canada before I had finished describing where the body was found." But he also knew that tidiness and brevity - for him - could mean disaster. To Perkins he wrote: "Restrain my adjectives, by all means, discipline my adverbs, moderate the technical extravagances of my incondite exuberance, but don't derail the train, don't take the Pacific Limited and switch it down the siding towards Hogwart Junction...
Ready told the councilors that he had transferred Cosgrove because the sergeant "had gone stale on his job" as head of the Crime Prevention Bureau and had besides asked to be "moved downstairs...