Word: crystallizer
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...Fact Man. His fiercest prejudice was against writing that was not crystal clear. In its Profiles, Reporter at Large, Talk of the Town, etc., Ross insisted on knowing everything about the subject and the people, right down to their blood pressure. On the margins of manuscripts he scrawled scores of choleric questions and comments: "Who he," "What's that," "Don't think," "File and Forget." He never rewrote a piece himself, but his marginal scrawls often ran almost as long as the article. Another prejudice-against the traditional two-line* "he & she" cartoon-led to the one-line...
...word got around, crowds streamed into the Crystal Palace to see the painting. Sanchez Bella, organizer of the Biennale, tried to look pleased. Said he: "At the Biennale we even have Picasso's Soviet dove." Said Artist Perceval, sweating, after a long talk with the police: "The dove is not Soviet. It is just a poor little dove who lives in the patio of my home...
...Communists are proud of Harvard Professor John K. Fairbank," he cried, and in the next breath, "Concealed Communists are the greatest menace that the United States has ever faced!" The connection was crystal clear, but this indirect method makes it impossible for accused men to sue for libel...
...notebooks. She borrowed her plots from other writers (as did Shakespeare), her material from the weird and wonderful conduct and conversation of grownups. Settings gave her no trouble, for when visitors came to her Sussex home (her father was a retired War Office official), they made mention of "The Crystal Palace," "The Gaiety Theatre," "Hampton Court"-glamorous place names which Daisy seized and shaped into glittering abodes for the ardent characters to whom her imagination was dedicated...
Tales of Tomorrow (Fri. 9:30 p.m., ABC). H. G. Wells's The Crystal Egg, with Thomas Mitchell...