Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Queen at a command performance; she saw the city's patched-up ruins; she thought it simply wonderful how plucky the British were in their gloom-bound island. When she got safely home to California, she poured out her impressions to sympathetic Gene Handsaker, an A.P. feature writer, who set it all down in heart-throbbing prose. Sample quotes...
...your item under the head of Hosenselbständigkeitsgefühl [TIME, Jan. 5] . . . I have been delegated . . . to express admiration for the writer who understands the security of pants (Hosenselbständigkeit) and who deals with the subject with such deftness; but, on a vote taken, there was a protest against the writer's translation of the crisp word. We believe that it is better rendered as Confidence-in-your-pants-remaining-in-position -without -further-worry. A minority would substitute "panties" for "pants...
...lessons through "hypnopaedia" (sleep-teaching), a less talented novelist wrote a book with a similar idea. It never broke into print: New York publishers thought it too badly written and too fantastic. In the novel, an ambitious man made himself ruler of the world by inventing a "cerebrograph" (mind-writer), which taught people while they slept. Author Max Sherover abandoned the novel, but not the idea...
Sindlinger, not content with mass testing, is also experimenting with mass writing by "established writers." One such established writer is Professor James (The Struggle for The World) Burnham of New York University. His first screen play is being "developed by Mr. Burnham and the editorial staff" of the Workshop, with the help of what Sterling North calls the "collective wisdom of the American people...
When George Santayana '86 said o the Lampoon, ". . . always late and not always funny," he was, to the best knowledge of the reading public, making one of his most timeless statements. In a recent issue, for example, there is a somewhat autobiographical piece by a writer who describes himself as having "the appearance of a second-hand, dejected tea-bag" and whose style is, in most respects consistent with this aspect...