Word: press
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other words, I did not refer to pie-in-the-sky liberalism, but to the press of events which compresses the news into capsules, and stereotyping of people and things...
...time critic of TIME has a confession to make. As one of the central actors in the drama that has unfolded at the House Education and Labor Committee during the past six weeks, I must say that the most honest and accurate reporting which has appeared anywhere in the press is that which I have read in the last two issues of TIME. In my opinion, this is a classic example of a "big" story which never became "news" in the daily press, but which finally saw print in your journal...
MIND THE STOP: A BRIEF GUIDE TO PUNCTUATION, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, by G.V. Carey. Cambride (Eng.): Cambridge University Press, 1958. 130 pages. 95 cents...
...fascinating example of how the vanity firms work was provided by New York's Exposition Press, one of the leaders in the field, during FTC hearings two years ago. Up to a point, Exposition-which has since entered into a consent order promising to mend its ways-went through the routine of a regular publishing house. But the difference between what an editor reported to Publisher Edward Uhlan and what Uhlan wrote to the author-in persuading him that it was worth his money to have his book published-was both funny and pathetic. Items from the FTC hearings...
...worst book I have ever edited. It is incoherent, illiterate, without sense, reason, or simple understanding . . . This is literally an insane book on the need of men to look to God . . . It should be buried quickly, for the insanity and hysteria and illiteracy make it a menace to Exposition Press...