Word: rumpledness
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Birdlime in a Dell. It sounds like dismal stuff, but from the first lines of this play the Irish language contrasts with modern stage English as a cage of songbirds contrasts with a yardful of hens, and the reader is quickly caught in a Grand McGuignol of fatalist humor. Like...
The traveler turned travel writer must also carry his knowledge lightly, rather like a tourist's folding iron, so that the press of history never completely smooths over the gaily rumpled wardrobe of fresh impressions. Six superior recent travel books are linked not only by knowledgeability and good writing...
While Southerners in recent years have become increasingly impatient of Northern reporters who write stories criticizing segregation in Dixie, one of North Carolina's most influential citizens is a sharp-tongued Yankee newspaperman who unabashedly derides discrimination in any form. His name is Harry Golden. A one-time promotion...
In a society where capital and able management have become essential to newspapers along with journalistic talent, many will still agree with Churchill, that the ultimate responsibility for the press rests with the newspaper and magazine owners. "They have the power not only of the press but of the SUP...
Cunning Bun. Around 10:30 the Nixons quietly left. Their takeoff was followed by the departure of stiff, proper Society Matron Mrs. Merriweather Post, hair in cunning bun, dignity coolly intact. Hardly anyone cared; the band blasted out with Hold That Tiger, and for hours that tiger was really loose...