Word: forli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Parliament outlawed crime comics. The broad new law provides up to two years' imprisonment for anyone who "makes, prints, publishes, distributes, sells" or possesses "for any such purposes" a comic which "exclusively or substantially comprises matter depicting pictorially the commission of crimes, real or fictitious."
But Pearson and Pegler had little time for such mere jabs from outsiders last week; they were too busy shouting worse names, kicking and gouging each other and yelling "foul." All this, cried Pearson in aggrieved tones, was due to a fact that Pearson unblushingly made public: Pegler had violated...
"Many things operate to keep an editorial writer's opinion of himself in proper perspective. He can never be sure of himself, for while he may write his heart out about something that really matters without attracting the least attention, let him mention some trifling subject like pumpkin pie...
"One conclusion reached early . . . was that we were no judge of our own writings. Something we care for a great deal . . . falls without a sound into the quiet pool of public inattention.
The pleasantly dissonant tuning up and chatter stopped in mid-note as the grey-haired man in the tan sport coat walked briskly across the stage to the podium. For a few silent moments his glance flickered over the musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his shale-blue eyes and...