Word: debunkers
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...script was simply untrue." The rights to the play then reverted to Secondari. When Producer Brodkin moved over to CBS's Studio One, he bought The Commentator again, paying the "top price," according to the author. Producer Brodkin then cited the script in a newspaper interview to "debunk" the notion that TV is hamstrung by taboos. Last week, after getting word of the cancellation, Brodkin said, "I resent the implication that I am being censored." And Author Secondari, noting that ABC has no live dramatic show, concluded: "I've run out of networks...
...speech before the Authors' Club of London, his lordship charged that America must take the blame for much that is bad in current English. American slang is often "virile and admirable," and his lordship gave his blessings to such terms as bulldozer, blurb, debunk. But he was appalled by the U.S. use of face up to for face, meet up with for meet, check up on for check. "These atrocities are probably due to the influence of German immigrants who did not learn English...
...some very juicy meat for the carnivorous Commies in your report on Louisiana's Bossier Parish school board action. We are still laughing heartily at the Communist Party's difficulties in their attempt to debunk Stalin; however, it becomes a tragedy when American public schools resort to similar "educational" tactics...
...Communist during the 1948 coup, when the Iron Curtain clanked down on Czechoslovakia. As a professor of international relations, he later proved his devotion to Big Brother by writing a book called The Wilson Legend in the History of the Czechoslovak Republic, a sleazy effort to debunk Czechoslovakia's esteem for Woodrow Wilson. For this and similar services, Hajek last May was made Czech ambassador to London...
...siren of alarm among U.S. labor unions; they fear that the already swift spread toward automation will throw thousands of workers out of jobs. Before a congressional committee investigating the stock market last week (see WALL STREET), General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice took special care to debunk the bugaboo. Said he: "Automation is the making of tools to produce more efficiently . . . It's progress...