Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff stands midway between the facts and the reader. Those too deeply involved in a subject often lose the ability to tell others about it. The worlds of business, mathematics, art, music and medicine all have their own jargons. TIME writers who cover each of these must understand the patois; but they have to know another language-English...
Matthews, who has been managing editor for five years, is the "one man" through whose head all TIME stories go before they are directed toward TIME'S mythical "one man" reader. Before he scribbles TSM on the upper righthand corner of the copy, Matthews has to understand the story, to believe it, and to admit grudgingly that its language is as clear, forceful and readable as it can reasonably be made. His taste sets TIME'S style, his interest and values have an important (but not by any means the only) influence on what TIME says. Editors, writers...
Edwards, who thought up all the clues himself, couldn't understand why everybody missed "such easy hints." He explained: "The original contest was started as a satire, to end all giveaways." But the skyrocketing Hooperatings of Mrs. Hush (Clara Bow) and Miss Hush (Martha Graham) changed his thinking. After the Walking Man, he might try a "Walking Lady, a Baby Hush, or a Burping Baby." The only trouble is "those other quiz shows that glommed on to the idea." If the rivals don't stop, they may spoil the whole thing...
There are other perils-a dissolving perspective of paradox. Man's knowledge is limited, but not completely limited, since he has some sense of the limits-and, to that degree, transcends them. And, as he transcends them, he seeks to understand his immediate situation in terms of a total situation-i.e., God's will. But man is unable to understand the total situation except in the finite terms of his immediate situation. "The realization of the relativity of his knowledge subjects him to the peril of skepticism. The abyss of meaninglessness yawns on the brink...
Chicken men can't understand why the world is against them. They argue that chickens are insensitive animals anyway, and that game roosters fare better than most common chickens, which end up in a fricassee without having a chance to defend themselves. Game cocks cannot be kept at large with another rooster, for a cock will fight to the death with any other male fowl he meets. Because no two cocks can be turned loose on the same walk (yard) without fighting, chicken men parcel their roosters out on as many as 40 neighboring farms, where they boss...