Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...College Outline Survey of Journalism says the weather is an unfailing source of copy for harried journalists. If this be true--and the College Outline has stood up under many a gruelling test--editorial writers should feel duty bound to make suitable comment upon this week's isothermal aberrations. The desire to carry out this obligation to the readers was strengthed by the fact that it's too damn hot to think about anything but the heat. To the above two considerations was added the fact that the Editorial column must be filled by something, else subscribers will be demanding...
Editors will feel an urge to jump on Hocking, especially for his parallels, for truth in politics and morals is no matter of applying a multiplication table. But critics can profit by reading his argument to the end, at least for his insistence on the principle that freedom of the press presupposes a specific acknowledgement of moral responsibility by the press. His argument is a rocky path, but along the way he has strewn some bright pebbles of comment and criticism...
...gotta mess a guy. up on the air, I just think of some s.o.b. that insulted me the other day, and then I grind my teeth and do what the script says just as if I was doing it to the guy who insulted me. Afterwards I really feel relieved. Gripes, I'd hate to have a psychoanalyst go over...
...stories in this collection, written between 1939 and 1947, are slick magazine products with a happy ending, but the majority appeared first in the New Yorker and wear a kind of civilized brutality. Readers will miss the garlicky locale of his earlier books, but they will feel the sting of the old Weidman venom...
...jacket, is the place where printers throw broken type. These 26 stories by John O'Hara (an Old Newspaperman himself) have the neat and durable ring of O'Hara's best writing. They also have O'Hara's special effect of making the reader feel he has bitten something brassy. To O'Hara's hopeful admirers the stories may look like 26 more notes for the novel they think he ought to write-and, from that point of view, wasted sticks of type...