Word: menckenisms
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...Bernard Baruch, Bobby Kennedy and H. L. Mencken rolled into one, and his willingness to have his say and to stand by it is refreshing. During his comments in the seminar several Pellisms appeared in a series of pet peeves...
...Newspapers," said the New York Herald Tribune's John Campbell Crosby last week, "need another H. L. Mencken...
John Crosby's decision to try on Mencken's mantle is the result of an anguished, three-year tussle with himself and the H. T. syndicate. The syndicate feared a loss of readers. Crosby feared a loss of sanity if he kept on working television. "I can't look at that box any more or I'll go crazy," he confessed. And in his farewell column he wrote: "It gets harder and harder to write a coherent sentence...
...radical attacks upon social conformity" in the writing of Eric From, William H. Whyte and David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, complete the pattern, according to Hartz. He compared them to the earlier polemics on society written by Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken...
...characters are given false names. But their historical identities, emphasized by the makeup department and in the script, are never in doubt, and the flagrant distortion of their qualities and motives may therefore seem all the more reprehensible to moviegoers who hold these serious and important men in memory. Mencken, for example, is portrayed by Gene Kelly as a lip-curling, hat-tilting city-room slicker who talks the sort of typewritten tarradiddle that does less than justice to the rich, organic vocabulary of the author of The American Language...