Word: organizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tribute to the editor who single-handled amassed this list of famous names, but who apparently could not reject the cast-offs to those authors who print their best elsewhere. The contributions of William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes, and Horace Gregory are less than shamefully insignificant. Marya Zaturenska's "Organ, Harp, and Violin," a palpable parroting of Dryden's "song for St. Cecilia's Day," combines with a host of insignificantly obscure poetry to bewilder the reader and to detract from the worthwhile portions of the issue...
...preparing a last-ditch defense of their 71? racket. As though to prove they had lost none of their nerve, they even demanded priorities on mining equipment to meet the new war-industry demand for silver-at twice the already artificial market price. Hard-hitting American Metal Market (trade organ) found a word for it in O. Henry: "The legitimate ethics of pure swindling...
While thousands of young Americans prepared to receive their first Easter Communion, 1,100,000 German youths, just turned 14, had a first Nazi "communion" two weeks before Easter-complete with organ music, readings from Mein Kampf, sermons based on the Führer's writing. Reich Youth Leader Arthur Axmann spoke over the radio for the Berlin ceremony, cited Hitler as a name to worship and an example for all young people to follow...
...complete job on U.S. slang is beyond human compass. "God-box" is given for Church but not for organ. "Profile" is curiously absent from journalistic slang. The Hollywood section fails to include "ootchimagootchi" (hot talk as an obbligato to Latin lovemaking), though it does give "wrinkle" (an actress' mother...
Margaret Fuller Ossoli was the Original American Bluestocking. She tried to model herself on Goethe; she taught Emerson the necessity of joining action with thought and the correct pronunciation of German (he remembered the latter); she edited The Dial, the house organ of Transcendentalism; she was outtalked at last by fuliginous Thomas Carlyle; she embodied at its most intense the Transatlantic cultural hunger of the Eastern Seaboard. This is a full-length portrait of her, recording every detail from the carbuncle ring she wore as her symbol of masculinity to almost every severe headache she had. It makes a period...