Word: texts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woes in the world. Never once did he criticize Russia. He suggested that the U.S. pull out of Berlin. "We can't lose anything by giving it up militarily in a search for peace." The trademark of Marcantonio & friends was stamped on every page of the text. Said Wallace: "We stand against the kings of privilege who own the old parties . . . [who] attempt to control our thoughts and dominate the life of man everywhere in the world...
...transference. But wherever it has seemed necessary, old words have been changed for new. Recks not his own rede becomes Minds not his own creed. In all, there are 25 such changes. Some are debatable, but the principle is sound. It is equally sound, of course, to cut the text. There are purists who will yell bloody murder at the very idea that Shakespeare can possibly be "improved" on in any way at all. Nonetheless, Olivier has treated him to some shrewd editing...
...only eleven experimental stations will be affected immediately. In Manhattan, faxtation WGHF announced that it was getting ready to broadcast four tabloid pages of text and pictures four times daily. In Passaic, N.J., Finch Telecommunications, Inc. announced that it is already manufacturing 100 transmitters for FM stations, 5,000 colorfax* recorders, which may be plugged into any FM radio. The transmitters will be on the market this week, the recorders (priced between $100 and $150) in two or three months...
Joseph B. Keenan, chief prosecutor in the Japanese war-crime trials, noted happily that he was a much more popular author in Japan than ex-Premier Hideki Tojo, the No. 1 defendant. The published text of Tojo's defense affidavit had sold 5,000 copies, the Japanese version of Keenan's summation...
...also said: "I am neither a Protestant nor a Catholic; I am simply a Christian." Like other devout atheists, he is deeply concerned with God, and an earnest reader of the Bible. His Journals and, indeed, almost all his books have religious overtones. Sometimes a Biblical text haunts him for hours at a time: " 'Except a man be born again.' All this morning I repeated these words to myself and I am repeating them this evening, after having measured all day long the frightful shadow that my past casts onto my future...