Word: tags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Always alert for a pat tag from the Bard, a chance to get off a self-deprecatory wisecrack, Britons last week merrily quoted Hamlet to each other, felt an obscure contentment that the most fantastic episode in Britain's greatest war could be cosily tied up with Shakespeare...
...anger. Hence This Above All, though full of provocative data, is in the long run a disappointment. For Eric Knight merely mutters some phrases about the wisdom of the heart and a need for faith, dodges the whole crisis by bumping off his hero, gives his pregnant heroine a tag line about fighting it her way (unquestioning patriotism) now, and changing to Clive's way (Leftward) when war is done...
...Republican Party"-a likely candidate for the front page a few days earlier-appeared quietly on page 17 of the New York World-Telegram. And word was reputed to have gone down to Publisher Howard's editors to lay off hereafter such features as the identification-tag melodrama...
...Battle was not all tag. There were sharp and dramatic episodes in both Western and Eastern basins...
...There are three classes of information ("secret," "confidential," and "restricted") which it is illegal to publish, and any officer whatever can tag one of the last two labels to military news. Many officers don't know what constitutes "classified" information. The press sections of the services, instead of being headed by generals and admirals who have authority to decide what is and is not classified information for publication, are manned by officers of lower rank who cannot give out any information which might offend some cranky general or admiral. Result: the press sections of the services withhold much information...