Word: speak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editor Daniels, 55, was talking through his hat about the A.P. story, which was at worst, dully written, but he could speak with some authority about propaganda in the news. As Franklin Roosevelt's press secretary in 1945, he admitted last year he released only those pictures of F.D.R. at Yalta (two months before his death) that showed him "least marked by deadly haggard weariness...
...know Illinois is a poor little state. You steal this much out of your public treasury there, don't you, and you never miss it." Roared Douglas, with a biting reference to Fulbright's unbroken silence on the segregation issue in Little Rock: "I speak out against these things-and against some of the occurrences in the State of Arkansas...
...allowed use of before-and-after pictures, some showing faces horribly deformed by cancer, then repaired by skillful surgery. One of the most eloquent volunteer exhibits was a man who had had his vocal cords removed for cancer of the larynx: Deputy Sheriff Sproul Dean, who has learned to speak through his gullet with swallowed air. Said he: "I recovered from that thing, and I want to show others that they...
...style because "I am unstable and anxious." Using as his point of departure children's scrawls and the art of the insane, he is convinced that "art has much to do with madness." ¶ Serge Poliakoff, a gypsy who paints geometric designs and says his "ambition is to speak the truth ... A red circle is not the sun. It is a red circle." ¶ Bernard Buffet, who once used his mother's torn sheets as canvases, has had the most spectacular success, now owns a chateau and a Rolls, says "wealth aids my creative spirit; poverty does...
Nickles may speak for Author MacLeish himself when he answers: "Isn't he? Job was innocent, you may remember...