Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate student in journalism I feel very unhappy after reading your Jan. 5 article on J-schools. I cannot understand how you have the nerve to list outstanding graduates from Missouri and Columbia and then come to the conclusion that J-schools are below the status of other professional schools. A J-school graduate will write circles around a nongraduate. And who knows, if the good reporter who didn't go to college would have, he might be twice as good...
Your J-school story has cleared up a problem for me. I now know what's the matter with the press. There is no more sharp, contentious writing on controversial subjects either in news stories or in editorials. Editorial writers particularly seem to feel their role is to obfuscate rather than illuminate. The only paper in the country today that sticks a needle into its readers is the Chicago Tribune-and it's slipping...
...There's no war." Says a Chicago draft-board official: "Most boys of draft age have never known a time when there was no draft.-They regard it as a part of their lives." And-Manny Celler & Co. to the contrary-for as long as the young men feel so, there are likely to be more numbers drawn in the long line of succession...
Other Takeyama diagnoses: "The higher the educational level among Japanese youth, the more suicides-for education enables them to feel their frustrations more acutely. Of university and high-school students, 40% have contemplated suicide at least once. Juvenile delinquents rarely consider it, because they take out their frustrations in criminal acts against society...
Captain Al B. Gordon called this strategy-move "a master stroke." Commenting on his team's chances against the Chicagoans, Gordon asserted that "Even with the coaches in there it will take some real heart from our side. We feel that those Windy City boys are way up for this...