Word: fiends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the shirt-sleeved man in the green eyeshade scribbles LONG FLAYS NEW DEAL, or MILLIONS STARVE IN UKRAINE, or FIEND GUTS TOT, he is simply doing a job according to the dictates of space and the special characteristics of his newspaper. In all likelihood he neither knows nor cares that he is "writing in a new tense, unknown before headlines were invented." Last week one Dr. Manuel Rosenblum, language teacher at Buffalo Collegiate Centre, gravely announced that newspapers have created the "sigmatic present" tense. Sigmatic means the addition of the letter "s" to any word...
...Macbeth in Manhattan. Audiences in both cities were equally impressed with the naivete of Comrade Shostakovich. The 28-year-old composer, who looks like a schoolboy with thatched hair and horn-rimmed glasses, had borrowed his story from Nikolai Leskov, a long-dead author who made his murderess a fiend incarnate. Shostakovich read of her crimes and promptly forgave her. Poor Katerina Izmailova! He would continue to call her Lady Macbeth but audiences were to understand that she was an innocent victim of her sordid bourgeois surroundings...
DEFY THE FOUL FIEND-John Collier-Knopf...
...Shakespeare (''Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend"&151; King Lear), Author John Collier has written a robust and racy novel of which Henry Fielding would have been proud. Readers of Defy the Foul Fiend may look forward to continuous entertainment of a high order, will close the book with the feeling that they have added a first-rate volume to their library of 20th Century English letters. No literary left-winger but a traditionalist, Author Collier adds his bit to the quietly...
...racketeer, first introduced into U. S. fiction in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925). now looms large among U. S. villain-heroes. In the cinema he is still sentimentalized into a fiend or a Robin Hood, but in novels, which can afford to be more factual, he is beginning to appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance...