Word: innuendoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reach saturation point. Of these 14 short stories a bare half-dozen were up to standard; the rest were as undistinguished as run-of-the-mill magazine fiction. Faulkner seldom writes about ordinary human beings. When he does he is careful to hide them in a mist of sinister innuendo. His forte is pathology; his most effective stories depend on madness gradually unveiled. In a novel he has space enough for his tortuous unraveling, but many of these short stories fail to convince simply because the reader has not had sufficient time to become bemused. The four best stories stand...
Meanwhile the family of a taxpayer and he himself would be subject to all the humiliation that comes with an indictment in the court of public opinion. If the grand jury subsequently refused to indict, the injustice would not be erased. There would always be the innuendo derived from the publicity given originally that somehow the taxpayer wasn't exactly on the level with his government...
Beside the point is discussion of the treatment which exiles now receive here, or of the Transcript's innuendo on anti-Semitism, or of the irrelevant defense that the University "does not hire men on a basis of their political connections." The test of Harvard's ability to procure creative scholars may be considered to lie in its policy toward the remaining thousand and odd German exiles; among them there must be some outstanding brilliants. To advance learning the Officers may well remember that "The deed is all, and nothing the report...
...character is in strange contrast to the feverish managerial gibberings which have attended his death. The field is wide open for trenchant innuendo. His handlers had little to win, much to lose by a victory over Carnera. He was allowed to enter the ring after a brief training period of ten days which followed all attack of influenza. The association of these two facts admittedly proves nothing; according to medical advices it had nothing to do with the boxer's death. But it focuses an ugly light on the managerial claim, that "He had to die to prove he wasn...
...Coolidge is one of the most kindly of men and would never deliberately hurt anyone's feelings. Least of all would he attack an individual by innuendo. He had never before been sued and furthermore his experience in public life and with newspapers had taught him what he could expect in the way of publicity if he were to appear in court as a defendant. It would mean taking him away from the privacy which he so much enjoys in Northampton, Mass., and subjecting him to a tremendous amount of limelight for days with constant besieging of reporters...