Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love for Love at the Capitol Theater. Halfway through the first act, two clergymen in the first-night audience got up and walked out. (Asked a member of the cast next day: "But surely they knew what they were coming to see, didn't they?") The Ottawa Journal called it "the sexiest, bawdiest and most outspoken comedy-drama that ever unfolded publicly on an Ottawa stage."* Said the Ottawa Citizen more mildly: ". . . One can only remind readers that Congreve is not Uncle Ray [Citizen children's columnist...
...Journal's strong words were not the first. Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, in a broadside entitled A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, an eminent churchman, the Rev. Jeremy Collier inveighed against the hero of Love for Love: "He is a prodigal debauchee, unnatural, and profane, obscene, saucy, and undutiful; and yet this libertine is crowned for the man of merit, has his wishes thrown into his lap. . . ." Congreve replied nervously, and not altogether convincingly, that he was doing a useful social work in painting "the vices and follies of human...
This week, in the Journal of Clinical Psychopathology, Dr. Seliger made a report on his new ten-hour treatment for the D.T.s. He has used it "with safety and marked success," he said, in a number of "uncomplicated" cases. Dr. Seliger thinks that his treatment confirms his theory that one of the chief causes of the D.T.s is lack of food, especially vitamin...
Once upon a time the Wall Street Journal would not have thought of beginning its news stories so breezily...
...free-&-easy approach has paid: the old superstition that businessmen like their news stories dull just isn't so. Last week, having tripled its circulation in six years, the jazzed-up Journal hit a record...