Word: editing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington is currently experiencing a flowering of "rank religiosity," writes John Cogley in the weekly, Commonweal, which he used to edit (he is now with the Ford Foundation). "Religiosity-or the God-bit, as it is called in the more cynical capital circles-has long been a part of our political tradition . . . The people, especially religious people, seem to demand it-and who is to say that there may not be some faint ring of sincerity as the politico's little coins of godliness are dropped? [But] the new God-bit is more serious. It is the identification...
...that he could venture out with his paintbrushes and easel, Britain's retired Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, holed up in his hotel suite, busied himself with revisions of his forthcoming History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which he wrote before World War II, found little time to edit till now. He made a sensa tional dinner appearance one evening in a red siren suit and slippers to match, jollied the hotel into swallowing its "Sunny Sicily" slogans and turning on its central heating. But he pleased the management enormously by quaffing the house champagne instead of the supply...
...paper's international readership attracts advertisers in English, French and German. But Editor Bretscher has no intention of going for more readers or advertisers by leavening his heavy diet of political analysis with easier-to-read news and features. Says he happily: "I hope we shall always edit a good paper and never cater too much to public tastes...
...novelist turned out a book a year. He could make a living at it. Now a novelist writes a book every three years because he is doing things in between." Many writers teach, e.g., Lionel Trilling, Wallace Stegner, Katherine Anne Porter. Margaret Cousins, Karl Shapiro and John Crowe Ransom edit magazines. Some write for the movies, where it is easy to forget the novel-writing urge. By one estimate, just two Americans made a living by poetry in the early 1950s-Robert Frost and Ogden Nash. But Frost has also taught and lectured. And Nash says: "You can make...
Franco & Joe. The Register's Denver office, where Father Smith works in shirtsleeves and Roman collar, is a kind of Holy See of U.S. Catholic journalism. Local editors from all over the U.S. send in news, which Father Smith and his staff of 26 laymen and five priests edit...