Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first paragraph of "The Old Oaken Barrel" [about two Kentucky Senators who tasted a leather-headed tack in a barrel of bourbon-TIME, July 25] is slightly reminiscent of an anecdote used about 400 years ago in Don Quixote. Two of Sancho Panza's cousins, renowned for sensitive taste buds, were enjoying a barrel of wine. Although both pronounced the liquor excellent, one cousin noticed a slight taste of leather, while the other objected to a taste of iron. The other imbibers, less discerning than Sancho's kinsmen, ridiculed the two. On emptying the cask, however, the cousins...
Punchy Prose. Clifton (Information Please) Fadiman thought that an impressive-and depressing-fact about the past 25 years was the decline in reader "attention." Readers refused to read anything except "the shortened paragraph, the carefully measured column, the 'punchy' sentence." The whole thing had reached its climax, he thought, in the new Cowles-published Quick-"a news digest of news digests." Wrote he: "One can easily imagine a digest of Quick (Quicker) and finally one of Quicker (Quickest). From Quickest to the nonreading of the news seems a logical next step...
...stories, they had become as predictably stylized as a Balinese dance. His Broadway heroes, for example, were called Sam the Gonoph, Harry the Horse or Gigolo Georgie; they could calculate the death of a pal as coldly as the third race at Jamaica-but in Runyon's last-paragraph twists and hooks they always proved to have hearts of gold...
...Paragraph 8: Mr. Hoover's first statement here was neither mentioned nor implied in either of the articles. As for his second statement, even if Mr. Hoover could disprove any part of the two articles, the prevalent fear at Yale would still indicate that the FBI is influencing academic and political activities...
...heart of Mr. Hoover's misunderstanding, as demonstrated in the rest of paragraph eight, lies in his statement that "The FBI does not sanction and is unaware of 'scare' tactics, as alleged." This was, in fact, one of the primary lessons for writing the story. The CRIMSON had hoped that Mr. Hoover would severly spank his errant agents, not rash to their defense. Williams S. Fairfield, (For the Editors...