Word: slapdash
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Gustave Flaubert was a great novelist, but a slapdash correspondent. These letters, most of them published in English for the first time, have none of the depth and polish of Madame Bovary. Often, in fact, they seem to have been written in tired irritation, as if his quest for the right word in his novels had sapped him of energy for anything else. They reflect a dull life but a dedicated...
...Washington columnist, thanks partly to his reputation for risking libel. Pearson gets many of his tips from disgruntled Congressmen or bureaucrats out to knife a policy or an opponent; fellow newsmen often slip him a risky story their own papers won't print. Pearson's stories are slapdash and often inaccurate, but his Quaker righteousness, bulldog tenacity and one-man campaigns (one sent Parnell Thomas to jail) have helped keep politicos and bureaucrats honest...
Possibly the best piece in the May number is an essay by Merril O. Young '51 on Dr. B. F. Skinner and his trained pigeons. This should no doubt be of interest to Dr. Skinner if no one else. The style is shoddy, and the slapdash arrangements of sentences displays the typical Lampoon unfamiliarity with the basic elements of syntax. "The Cruise of the Escarole and Romaine," by Douglas B. Bunce '50 about a forty-foot pedal boat is equally badly written, but might be fairly pleasant if you owned a forty-foot pedal boat at the time. John...
...After slapdash checking, Boston papers (Post, Herald, Traveler, Globe, Advertiser) and the Springfield Republican and News ran the story. Some used pictures of Richard S. Whitcomb of Longmeadow...
...their class as a storyteller. Michener's slapdash device in Return to Paradise is to write a fact-packed essay on an old haunt revisited, then write a short story based on the central idea of the essay. The stories fall fathoms below his Pulitzer Prizewinning Tales of the South Pacific. The essays, however, are basically good reporting and have an interest of their...