Word: knights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good newspaper editors constantly war -and with occasional success-against the use of clichés in writing. But Editor Frank Knight of the Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette thinks that the time has come to go to war against another tired type of journalism-the picture cliché. Thereby he has kicked off a lively argument in the November Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors...
...Gazette itself, said Knight, has mounted an offensive against such cliché pictures as those showing official handshakes, proclamation signings, groundbreakings, posed shots of matrons signing checks for charity. Complained Editor Knight: "How many times, for instance, have you seen Secretary Dulles' picture always looking the same, whether entering a plane in Washington or coming out of one in Geneva? I've seen as many as 15 pictures of President Eisenhower move on U.P. Telephoto in one afternoon and evening operation." Other picture platitudes that irk Knight include the congressional hearing that always seems to be shot from...
Assistant Managing Editor William J. White of the New York Daily News agreed with Knight that quality could be improved if "editors [would] show their displeasure over these timeworn cans of corn and insist that the fotogs get something new." But, he argued, if wire-service editors were to stop sending" every picture of Secretary Dulles leaving by plane for God knows where," editors would be the first to object...
Meanwhile, the Houses are in the process of casting for the current Christmas plays. While Eliot and Dunster are both producing the "Second Shepherd's Play." Lowell will put on "Knight of the Burning Pestle," Adams will present "Alcestis," by Euripides, Leverett "An Evening With Saroyan," and Winthrop "The Birth of the Beautiful Typewriter Girl...
HAIMOND DE MACY, knight: "I tried several times playfully to touch her breasts . . . She pushed me off with all her might. She was indeed a modest woman...