Word: slayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other pieces in the magazine are by Elinor Hughes, who is Boston's own Hedda Hopper, Elliot Norton of Hearst's Daily Record, William Van-Lennep, Joel Henning, and the editors. The latter's attack on CRIMSON drama criticism fails to slay a dragon that is probably much easier prey than The Advocate, unaccountably, estimates. Apart from its misrepresentation and misquotation, the essay is inoffensive to the Plympton Street conscience. It is more offensive to the community conscience, however, for it warns people not to believe everything they read in the papers. Not even newspapermen ask readers to do that...
...crusading again and moralizing again, but the muscles of his indignation have sagged. His wide-open target is the English "popular" press, which runs to sex, sadism and trivia. Small-town Newspaper Publisher Henry Page seems hardly the man to lift his lance off the ground, much less to slay the dragon. He has been twice mayor of Hedleston, and is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the respectable Northern Light. Unfortunately, he is the kind of noble but dull character who is ready to give those in need the stuffed shirt off his back...
...faced, overcome, transmuted." The powerful, majestic bull she sees as lunar, the great progenitor who nonetheless partakes of the dark unconscious and "the lower material aspects ... to be sacrificed, conquered, outgrown ... so that the positive, creative energies may be released." The reason Theseus had to search out and slay the half-bull, half-human Minotaur in the labyrinth, she suggests, is that the beast represents the "misused powers of the 'bull...
...outdoor sport. The whole safari business, U.S.-born Author Cloete strongly suggests, is about as rugged nowadays as camping out with a Boy Scout troop. From the time the Cloetes outfit themselves in brand-new hunting togs in Nairobi, Tiny makes it amusingly plain that she is out to slay the myth of the strong, infallible White Hunter...
...returned to the intensely personal dialogue with God that is characteristic of the Old Testament and existed among the sages and rabbis before the Middle Ages. In their writings God often sounds like a member of the family to be submitted to but nonetheless argued with: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," said Job, "but I will maintain mine own ways before...