Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Where our ancestors dipped their pens in acid we now dip ours in syrup. In statesmanship ... it pays to advertise. The medium of caricature is a godsend to ambitious politicians for it exhibits personality in an arresting and compelling manner. . . . The cartoonist draws from physical characteristics their spiritual significance, or, reversing the process, suggestions of abstract qualities which could not otherwise be made plain. It is to be expected that in this translation . . . the translator and his subject should not always see eye to eye. When the subject says. 'I quite appreciate a good cartoon against myself...
Scene of The Last Adam is New Winton, a Connecticut village complete with selectmen, gossips, bootlegger, post-office politicians, curmudgeons, lady of the manor, puritans, pagans. Author Cozzens introduces the strands of New Winton's life through the neat modern medium of the local telephone exchange, where the operators are so well known they are always called by name, act as a matter of course as the village news bureau. In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson...
...Manhattan to see what he could do about boosting the scant national advertising in Grit. The paper has prospered on circulation profits, but Benton & Bowles advertising agency discovered by the way Grit readers responded to a jelly-making contest last autumn that it should be an excellent medium for household advertising. Thus far Grit's advertising has been predominantly the tawdry patent medicine type. Excerpt from an advertisement of "The Medicine Man" in the anniversary issue: "An Indian Chief told my Father that a tea made by taking two teaspoonsful of Coltsfoot would cure bleeding lungs...
...proposed innovation, then, is intended to teach children something of the drama; but it proposes to do this through a medium which has hitherto presented dramatic principles in a form grotesquely distorted at best. Cinematic themes are commonly a patchwork of the efforts of several authors, or have been hacked piecemeal by the rewrite-men. The "character conflicts" are arranged in accordance with the meretricious morality of Will Hayes, and the acting is too often a mere exposition of secondary sexual characters. When genuine works of art are remodeled to conform to the movie-goers taste, the author's subtleties...
...Post went on to flay the English-Speaking Union editorially. Excerpt: "Pearls of wisdom which fall from the lips of Sir Frederick Whyte . . . shall not be cast before - well, not before run-of-mine citizens of Cincinnati thru the medium of newspaper news columns...