Word: heralding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech did not lack for repercussions. Presaged by phone calls and threatening letters, a time bomb appeared one morning on Curley's doorstep. Investigation revealed it to be the work of Harvard students: a box of peppermints wrapped in a copy of the Boston Herald, to be ignited the ringing of an alarm clock...
...WASHINGTON POST AND TIMES HERALD : IT is too bad that the Democratic Party could not have had the same sort of purge of its more extreme troglodytic elements that the voters administered to the Republicans...
...MIAMI HERALD: THE results yesterday rebuke, if they do not repudiate, the Eisenhower Administration. It has not balanced the budget or materially reduced expenditures. It has let a wishy-washy foreign policy lap to the shores of foreign...
...public display of neuro-journalism by the New York Post (see below). The usually hep New York Daily News pulled an Election-Night boner with the un-Newsworihy headline, HARRIMAN JUMPS AHEAD IN CITY VOTE, at the same hour that the competitive Mirror was proclaiming ROCKY WINS. The Herald Tribune's national political pundit, Joseph Alsop (TIME, Oct. 27), wrote four days before election that "anyone would be a fool to forecast the New York outcome...
Split Personalities. Lolita's atmosphere of mental illness seems pervasive, and at least three publications developed schizoid tendencies from reading the book. The New York Herald Tribune sprouted two critical heads with contradictory views: in the Sunday book magazine, Gene Baro praised "a notable consistency and artistic force," but in a daily review John K. Hutchens decided that Lolita "is not, I think, a distinguished work." In the New York Times Sunday book section Novelist Elizabeth Janeway praised Lolita at length ("One of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year...