Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days of yore, when sacred cows were sizzled on their sticks, are gone and dead. The Lampoon hesitates between offensive iconoclasm and dull despair. If the reader is burdened with the journal's sadism, think of the staff which produces it. as the poet observed upon emerging from the Game Cock one November evening in the 18th century...
This week, after the eye had done its missile-tracking in secrecy-wrapped obscurity for more than two years, the trade journal Aviation Week (circ. 67,000) ripped off the wraps. Since the Samsun installation is no secret to the Russians, argued Aviation Week, there is no reason to keep it a secret from the U.S. public...
...affectionate welcome, some of the press ranged from gooey valentines to hearty backslaps that gave the Cornwallis ritual at least the virtue of dignity. The Louisville Courier-Journal gushed that Elizabeth looked like an English rose "with a little of the morning dew still on the petals." Perhaps the deepest curtsy came from the Philadelphia Inquirer, whose greeting used "Her Majesty" seven times and "the Queen" only twice−a ratio of respect unmatched by the London Times itself. Long Island's Newsday burbled: WE LOVE THE QUEEN...
...absolute is the working of his law, says Parkinson, that "the officials would have multiplied at the same rate had there been no actual seamen at all." A U.S. example of Parkinson's Law was cited not long ago by the Wall Street Journal, which pointed out that while U.S. foreign aid has been almost halved between 1953 and 1957, the staff administering the program has nearly doubled...
Sitting motionless and staring at TV, long feared by physicians as a danger to the eyes, is also a threat to the circulation. So warned Philadelphia's Dr. Meyer Naide in the A.M.A. Journal last week. Internist Naide cited three patients (one a doctor) who had had severe blood clots in leg veins or arteries, requiring hospitalization and treatment with anticlotting drugs. Dr. Naide's prescription: take a "seventh-inning stretch" by getting up and moving around at least once an hour at TV seances, and for women, take off girdles, which can stop circulation in the thighs...