Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such arguments, Publisher Hugh Wagnon of Pocatello's Idaho State Journal retorts: "Ivory Tower." Although he draws the line at serving as publicity chairman, Wagnon is glad to work in other posts for service and civic groups. "I believe," he argues, "that only by working with people, can [an editor] obtain that intimate, firsthand knowledge that makes for accurate reporting, and editorial comment and criticism that is easy, natural and fair." Wagnon admits that the community-conscious reporter gets his sympathies involved with his projects, but concludes: "But you become a first-class citizen instead of a second-class...
...Hudson County, where annual county and city elections are among the liveliest in the U.S., newsmen who are willing to turn out speeches and publicity for political candidates have long found a rewarding short-term market for their talents. Reporters on Sam Newhouse's Jersey Journal (circ. 98,565) have enjoyed a virtual monopoly as political pressagents. The opposition Hudson Dispatch, the county's only other comparable pool of literary talent, has traditionally barred its employees from participating in political campaigns, while the Journal's policy has been to grant staffers leaves of absence...
...long as the infirm suffer financially, so long as there are over-burdened municipalities, so long as there is need for roads and education, there is no justification for the dividends." The antiadministration Calgary Herald indignantly advised its readers to "treat the bonus with contempt," and the Edmonton Journal denounced the plan as "a great hoax." Largely unheard from: the silent majority of ordinary citizens who will doubtless gratefully collect and happily spend the dividends...
Novelist Vladimir (Bend Sinister) Nabokov, 57, himself an émigré Russian and a Cornell professor of Russian literature, does more than sound-track his hero for laughs; in unobtrusive flashbacks he captures the underlying pathos of exile. Leafing through an émigré journal, Pnin sees his dead father and mother in the lamplit serenity of their pre-Revolutionary home; stonily viewing a Soviet documentary film, he bursts into tears at a sudden glimpse of the Russian countryside in springtime...
...acted upon, the proposal would permit a student to write a thesis approximately as long as an article in a scholarly journal instead of the much longer type of essay required at present...