Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Groundhog Day is a strictly American slant on the 1457-year-old celebration of Candlemas. A feature-hungry press has perpetuated the colonial fantasy that groundhogs emerge from their winter repose on February 2 to observe the coming of spring...
...depression '30s, Hungary-born Edward Newhouse wrote a leftish novel, You Can't Sleep Here, that led one critic to hail him as "the proletarian Hemingway." Two years later, his story of a Communist organizer (This Is Your Day) further established his skill-and his slant. He had been a contributor to the New Masses, but while his left hand was busy with ideological chores, his right was making a reputation for him with short stories in The New Yorker...
...scrutiny of U.S.A.A.F. men & manners in wartime England, The Gesture (also a first novel), James Gould Cozzens' Guard of Honor, an admirable study of base life at a U.S. flying field, and Theodor Plievier's gruesome Stalingrad, a broad-scale battle picture whose forceful "documentary" slant made it more fact than fiction...
...Without an explanation," said Reston, "the mere fact that the President has proposed to send Vinson to Moscow would have no meaning at all ... Straight news reporting of such stories leads them to uses for which they were never intended." Sometimes, he said, the A.P. removes one slant from a story only to give it another: "When [the A.P.'s] Jack Bell reported, "That's the first time I ever had a lunatic engineer," Mr. Dewey said sharply,' the A.P. desk in New York shouldn't have changed 'sharply' to 'facetiously...
...almost to the line of scrimmage, and with straight-ahead man Shafer out of the game, the Elis were able to stop anything through the middle. Valpey solved the problem with two bread-and-butter plays that have been gaining ground all fall--the wing-back off-tackle slant to one flank and the tailback sweep and or cutback to the other. Moffle, the wingback, clicked off 149 yards and tailback Roche added an other 130, including the two payoff long-gainers in the final period...