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...upper-level English courses. He talked of their "insufferable dullness," lamenting "the absence of any imaginative involvement" on the part of the writer. The result: "commonplace topics and commonplace papers." In slightly different terms, Professor William Alfred described what is essentially the same problem, noting the students' habit of suppressing their own perceptions and immediate responses, holding back what they think and feel. Rather, in writing term papers, students often try to write what they think will please the reader, asking themselves: What does he want us to see? What does he want us to feel? The immediate personal response...
...convictions have discomfited, enraged and educated newsmen and newspapers all over the Midwest. Sent to Minneapolis in 1937 to improve the lot of the Star, then running third in a field of three dailies, Stuffy ordered lost-dog stories put on Page One. He had the disconcerting habit of stopping reporters on their way to the typewriter and asking to hear their story. As the newsman talked, a stenographer surreptitiously took down every word. Later, when the reporter turned in his story, Stuffy triumphantly flourished the steno's transcript. "That's the way it should have been written...
Sympathetic Relations. Inevitably, some of the Red newsmen succumbed to habit and unreeled a few meters of the Red line. After the race riots in Birmingham and Montgomery, Pravda's Viktor Maevsky discovered a parallel between the "fascists" of the John Birch Society and the "fascists" who beat up the Freedom Riders. Erofeev complained about the "irresponsibility of the American press." Said he: "We met American corespondents at length, and the next morning articles would appear, vindictive and hostile, destructive of sympathetic relations between our countries...
...declared, but the racing car, "with its hood draped with exhaust pipes like fire-breathing serpents," should be the new symbol of poetry. "A racing car, rattling along like a machine gun, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." The artist should "sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and boldness...
...parodying scholarspeak, of course. Nobody in the Journal is that wretched. But in my present dour mood it seems all too plausible that courses at Harvard have broken intelligent students like those in the Journal of the habit of writing English. With the exception of Mr. Campbell's piece, which is written in an engaging mixture of tough-guy journalese and scholarspeak, all the contributions to the May Journal share an identical set of mannerisms which I take to be the rotund and doggedly impersonal tone of the properly house-broken scholar...