Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known chiefly as a writer of business stories, which you will remember in The Saturday Evening Post and elsewhere. His one other novel, Khaki, appearing at the close of the War, was badly timed and made little impression. Mr. Podd is the story of a millionaire who starts an ideal Government on an island all his own. Naturally, one's first question to Mr. Tilden is: "Mr. Podd is Henry Ford?" To which he replies: "Mr. Podd is not a caricature of Ford, though the Peace Ship escapade had a lot to do with my writing the story. No?...
...steamroller. For the past six months rumors have been current that Mussolini, by restoring Catholic education in the public schools, had bought Vatican support for the destruction of Don Sturzo's Party. Recently, a group of young "Black" (Ultra-Catholic) nobles m Rome endorsed Fascismo's "radiant ideal." Now the bidder hand smites and silences the little priest as he breathes defiance of the black-shirted Fascisti, who have "full powers" and the desire to make Italy safe for Fascismo, after these powers expire, by an "electoral reform" that gives the strongest minority a two-thirds majority...
...kodaks as he goes, has written two best-sellers on the subject, apparently, of what most people are. But Mrs. Gene Stratton-Porter, a woman who writes on the theory that " the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher ideal of life than he had when he began," holds an audience of 45,000,000 men, women and children by telling them what they certainly are not but (presumably) would like...
...overestimates the information of its readers. " This is the outstanding sin of highbrow journalism. . . "The ideal magazine article should be written as if the men and women who were to read it had just dropped from the planet Mars...
...American magazines are, each of them, too definitely either conservative or liberal or radical. This is " the sin of a fixed policy." " The ideal magazine should have no policy except a profound reverence for facts." The ideal editor will follow the facts wherever they lead, with the result that he is likely to be conservative in January, liberal in February, radical in March...