Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Today, says Executive Editor Richard Clarke, 64, "we find ourselves giving a hell of a lot of space to foreign affairs because that's what the public 'is interested in." Patterson's towering editorial rages have largely disappeared, and his quiddities, which persisted out of habit, now seem to be receding. (Although he supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt for three elections, the captain got so mad at F.D.R. just before Pearl Harbor that his paper's persistent anti-Roosevelt editorials estranged the two old friends.) The paper has become conventionally Republican now-and even peaceable. "Certainly nobody...
...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...