Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schoep ended the Italian-English language dispute, deciding for the latter. As he put it, singing in a language all could understand was the only way that a meaningful "marriage of stage and voice" could be attained...
...Council voted unanimously, however, to lend "symbolic support to Hungarian students' fight for academic freedom." The support will take the form of a letter to be sent today to the United States delegation at the United Nations, the New York Times, and the Hungarian Student Union. The latter is the powerful Hungarian counterpart of the National Student Association...
...square where the life-size statue of General Josef Bern stands, honoring the Polish officer who fought for Hungary's freedom in 1848, 200,000 people crowded around a latter-day poet named Peter Veres, silent mover in the Hungarian Writers' Union. He stood at the foot of the statue and read out a manifesto demanding complete freedom of speech and press, a new Hungarian government, release of political prisoners, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. The national flag - minus the Red star and hammer crossed by an ear-of-wheat emblem - was draped around...
...Mencken voice hardens at latter-day journalists, and he wonders querulously what the modern young reporter does with all his leisure: "I get the impression from the modern reporter that he doesn't really like his work. He wishes he were a druggist. The idea of a newspaper reporter with any self-respect playing golf is to me almost inconceivable. I hear that even printers now play golf. God Almighty, that's dreadful to think of." Other Mencken shafts...
From the time of its Liberal Party allegiance to its latter-day attachment to plain liberalism, the Guardian has been a political maverick, with a constitutional tendency to travel the left side of the political road. It opposed the Boer War, losing almost a quarter of its circulation and requiring its reporters to take police escorts to work; it fought for Irish home rule when anti-Irish riots threatened in Manchester; it opposed Britain's entry into World War I. Under Wadsworth the paper, a nonprofit-making trust, switched its support from Labor to Tories as it deemed...