Word: reads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Intellect, by Jacques Barzun. A thin, well-read line of intellectual heroes, says Columbia University's Barzun. must hold the past against artiness, scientism and coddled incompetents...
...weigh the strengths, problems and needs of the nations and leaders he had just seen-many of them, such as West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and Nationalist China's Chiang Kaishek, his friends. High in the sky he could also slip into a sweater and carpet slippers, read his detective stories, sip rye on the rocks, play the inevitable backgammon with Janet, or make plans to stop off for a swim some place where there were good beaches, say Bermuda, Venezuela or Ceylon...
...been sweetened somewhat in a calculated effort to liberalize the press-and to keep the reader swallowing the party pill. With full official sanction, newspapers began criticizing each other: "Soviet newspapers," wrote Pravda in a recent and scathing Press Day editorial, "are insipid, lifeless, deadly dull and difficult to read." Komsomolskaya Pravda, the youth paper, erupted in a rash of sensational feature stories, e.g., "What Role Does Love Play in Marriage?" Pravda's publishing house gave birth to a new daily, Sovetskaya Rossia, which in three years has built a circulation of 1,500,000 by offering jaded citizens...
...highly readable, well documented and thoroughly logical words Cater makes a very impressive case against believing everything you read in the newspapers. Some of it is put there because a reporter needs a story. Some of it gets in because a Washington policy-maker is having a quarrel and needs public support (but the other side of the argument may not make the story.) A great deal of it gets in because of the constant competition for public attention in Washington...
...avoid a feeling of dislike, verging on distrust, for what they say and the way they say it. Of course, such was Cassandra's fate, as the Alsops are probably only too ready to tell you. But it is not just their message which makes them unpleasant to read; it is their manner which really makes them objectionable...