Word: mushing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hasty Pudding: a mixture of corn meal mush, spiced with salt, and served steaming with milk and molasses. --Theodore Chase in the Harvard Advocate...
Bring on the pot of steaming mush...
WITHOUT THE FOUR YEARS of solid research behind it, Wayward Reporter might have turned into a dry, formal investigation of modern journalistic writing from 19th-century mush to Hearstian sensationalism to the terse prose on the front page of today's New York Times. At times, Sokolov seems a little overwhelmed by the topic, like a python swallowing an elephant. He wrestles with how to treat Liebling's role as a war correspondent, not one of his greatest periods. Sokolov does not compare Liebling's war pieces to other more outstanding journalists of the time, perhaps because he does...
Your article on Wheaton College [Sept. 22] illustrates what Wheaton and the other members of the Christian College Consortium have so long proclaimed: Christianity does not turn the brain to mush; rather, surrender to Christ results in the freedom to develop fully one's mental, emotional and physical talents...
...journalistic axiom that disasters come in threes has proved painfully true for the proud Boston Globe (daily circ 482,000), which has found itself embroiled in triple trouble-all of its own making First, an editorial writer put a joke headline, MUSH FROM THE WIMP, on a piece about President Carter's anti-inflation speech. The headline somehow slipped into 140,000 copies before it was caught and changed to something less irreverent...