Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Morris' journalistic learning, or non-learning, began at age twelve, when he became sports "editor" of the Yazoo Herald. A decade later he came briefly to public attention when, as student editor of the University of Texas newspaper, he editorially accused the Governor and state legislators of collusion with oil and gas interests. He was asked to resign, but refused. The university countered by appointing a faculty supervisor for the paper. The next day Morris wrote that the appointee would "bring to the Daily Texan ... the sensitivity of high salary and position...
...they have ever known." To anyone who has been struck by a gust of Bucky Fuller's technocratic sales pitches, the cheerful implications are clear: yet another extension of the telescope is contained within our society. Things like space programs are not the limits of technocracy: they herald the as yet undiscernible beginnings of some fresh epoch...
...parent Los Angeles Times, the company has acquired the New American Library, the World Publishing Co., Popular Science and Outdoor Life magazines and, with the Washington Post, is partners in an increasingly profitable news service. Most recently, it offered more than $90 million for the Dallas Times Herald and its three local TV and radio stations...
...noon the stands were beginning to fill up. Old men and young boys were hawking the Record American, the Herald Traveler, and WilsonWaldo's tip cards at makeshift newsstands underneath the grandstand. I bought a program and walked outside to look at the track...
...late '20s he came to New York and worked on the Herald Tribune, the Mirror and TIME. He developed a reputation as a prodigious drinker-he quit altogether in 1953 after suffering a massive internal hemorrhage-with a concomitant talent for being fired. But by 1929 the first of his short stories started appearing in The New Yorker. Four years later, his literary reputation solidly established, he set to work on Samarra. Between August and November he rattled out 25,000 words, then ran out of money. He promptly sent copies of the early chapters to three publishers, asking...