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...Governor Averell Harriman, one of the faster-moving inactive candidates, called a press conference in Chicago, hammered the desk and took aim squarely at Adlai Stevenson. Said Harriman: "The word 'moderation' is not in the Democratic dictionary. It seems to me you fall into the Republican vernacular when you talk about moderate and middle of the road. The Democratic Party is not moderately for labor, not moderately for the small businessman, not moderately for any one such group. We are for them all the way." "Heartsick Ashamed." By week's end, the Harriman cry had been taken...
...well done is Harvard Inside Out by Elmer E. Hagler '16, which appeared in 1916. The cartoons are very amateurish jobs, and the captions lack a good deal of punch. Written ostensibly by the barely literate younger brother of a Harvard undergraduate, these captions adopt an obvious vernacular which becomes more and more oppressive as each page is turned...
...does it seem to have progressed. He has plucked from the history of the world a rather unsavory incident of parricide, researched it thoroughly, and reported it with exactness. The names of the past receive flesh and clothing, and the words they spoke or probably spoke are worked into vernacular and decorated with quotation marks. Aside from this, the author does little more than fill out the recorded incidents with stage direction and plausible detail, and fill in between them with little scenes of his own devising--none of which display any abnormal fertility of imaganation. His language...
...clever script, which he adapted from his own television play. Many of his coins go down the drain and others are too bright and shiny for belief; but at his best this writer, who was born and raised in a Jewish-Italian part of The Bronx, can find the vernacular truth and beauty in ordinary lives and feelings. And he can say things about his people that he could never get away with if he were not a member of the family...
...diffident and withdrawn. "He was one of the quiet ones," a college servant recalls. Eden collected modern paintings, walked off with first class honors in Persian and Arabic. On one occasion during World War II, he startled a regiment of Turkish regulars by addressing them in their own vernacular...