Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern of that magazine . . . Of course if you're a genius, you won't have to worry about those rejection slips anyway." The managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement, you can be as dismal as you choose, but the public continues to prefer entertainment to morbidity . . . I often feel that if I come across one more trauma or psycho-analyst's couch in a manuscript, I will become a manic-depressive and scream...
...thumb for the aspiring back pose as "Advice to the Young Writer," and in the confusion between the two there is a danger that Signature has failed to notice. If a college literary magazine advises young writers to serve up the saccharine puree that Good Housekeeping and Glamour prefer, 1960's novelists may very well be a bunch of alayeys, modeling their work to the taste of every tired, disillusioned woman's magazine editor. Signature would have done better if they tried to obtain local writer-teachers such as Albert Guerard or John Ciardi to give advice. They at least...
...student food dispensers have two bones to pick with Union Dining Hall authorities. First, the matter of wages. The student waiters would prefer to receive the 65 cents plus free meals paid to outside help, rather than the present 75 cents an hour...
Beethoven's music was very sloppy [as Composer Britten said], but there are still enough of us around with no musical training and a protracted childhood admiration of Beethoven who prefer to glow naively in the light of the Eroica than to endure the involute bleatings of Britain's Britten...
...still prefer magic to medicine; hence the popular excitement about the "wonder drugs." Even some doctors have become a little overenthusiastic. Dr. John H. Talbott, of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and the Buffalo General Hospital, sounded this warning in the current issue of the New York State Journal of Medicine: "It is only human to minimize the untoward reactions of a new therapeutic substance in the enthusiasm of discovering and subjecting it to clinical trial." Dr. Talbott listed, in detail, the wonder drugs' dangers...