Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devoted to his wife Harriet (he can boast that in 39 years of marriage they have never missed dinner together, whether at public banquet or in fireside privacy), McCormack too is, in effect, wedded to the House. Heir apparent to Rayburn, leader of the New England Democratic bloc, grey, sharp-featured John McCormack is, in his own words, his party's "field general." His battlefield is the House floor, his weapon one of the House's toughest and most partisan tongues. "I'm a great believer in the two-party system." he says. "But I think the Democrats should...
Your J-school story has cleared up a problem for me. I now know what's the matter with the press. There is no more sharp, contentious writing on controversial subjects either in news stories or in editorials. Editorial writers particularly seem to feel their role is to obfuscate rather than illuminate. The only paper in the country today that sticks a needle into its readers is the Chicago Tribune-and it's slipping...
Those consequences may be considerable. U.S. Judge Johnson, 40, a Republican, inherited the nickname "Straight Edge" from his great-grandfather, Fayette County's first Republican sheriff and a man widely known for his directness and his sharp cutting edge. Frank Johnson, appointed to the federal bench by President Eisenhower in 1955, inherits the traits as well as the name. Says one Alabama lawyer: "If you have a good case, you don't have to worry. The judge will rule with you. If you don't have a case, you don't have to worry either...
...thing") that the reader was invited only to sympathize with the victim. The Chicago American vented its spleen in a front-page box: "Everyone is asking, 'Who sent for him?' " For the most part, the press attempted to balance its Mikoyan account with sound editorials and sharp cartoons. But even on the editorial pages, there were some solos of Mikoyan praise. "If all Soviet officials were always as amiable as Mikoyan," beamed the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "there would be no cold...
...something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else at the same time, such as willing"). But for all its words, what the weighty issue added up to was a catalogue of who is solvent-and who is sharp enough to look solvent-in the world of entertainment. It was something for everyone, from Hollywood producers to hall-room has-beens, to leaf through during their idle hours until the next anniversary issue rolls off the presses...