Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giving us the bums' rush lay in the fact that I had spent part of the year in writing a book about a Third Avenue bar [Third Avenue, New York; Little, Brown; $2]. This is close, but no cigar; I understand that in reality, my failure to report three times weekly in Tim Costello's Social Register Saloon on Third Avenue, a grogshop sometimes known as the Almanac de Gotha Bar & Grill, was one cause of my dismissal...
...Neurology and Psychiatry gathered to discuss the case, saw an amazing transformation. Neat and demure, the patient answered the psychiatrists' questions politely. She remembered her lurid past, but wanted to forget it. Said she: "I want to go home and lead a normal life." The hospital's report: "The patient is quite friendly, cooperative, seriously interested in the future, somewhat lacking in initiative but adequately responsive when approached. . . . Previous aggressive sexuality has apparently vanished...
Young Gene Carter takes firm issue with last month's 70-page report of the independent Committee for Cooperative Field Research, which suggests that the remedy for rural Iowa's religious anemia is to reduce the number of churches. It seems to him that there are not too many churches but too few ministers. Says he: "I've never seen an area where the church was closed and the whole congregation goes elsewhere. A lot of the people just quit going to church...
...most travel books ("During the [week] days I went for three walks . . . once to the Cloisters of the Nikolaskirche, once to the Poppelsdorfer Schloss and once to the Beethovenhaus, which was closed"). It also has passages in which Poet Spender writes like a naive old schoolmaster-e.g., his report of a conversation he overheard between a couple of dreamy German lovers. "They discussed unrealistically how they would spend their honeymoon. They said they would get a Mercedes-Benz and travel. . . . What was extraordinary about this conversation was that . . . it was without the slightest shadow of guilt...
Both a local report and a social sermon, Small Town is most revealing when it is most parochial, when Author Hicks neglects the issues of the world at large to write about his fight for a town firehouse, about current attitudes in the schoolroom or garage...