Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters "write for their bosses" and 2) editors and publishers are "the real villains." Many legislators complained, however, that capital reporters are either incompetent or show bias in favor of their newspapers' editorial policies. Complained a Florida lawmaker: "During our special session on reapportionment, one reporter threatened to 'ruin' a legislator with publicity if he did not change his vote...
...clause. More important, Justice Tom C. Clark's majority opinion went on to say that if the present Justices were considering baseball for the first time, they would undoubtedly find baseball to be business. Clark, in fact, suggested that, to clarify the whole situation, Congress might want to write legislation specifying that baseball is business...
After remarking on the low intellectual quality of his audience, Capp explained his technique: "I always write to people before I disembowel them." He says that one of the disemboweled, Liberace, sent him a Valentine which thrilled him. But Capp's main theme, however, was fluoridation, which he subtly orchestrated throughout the evening...
Perhaps the most encouraging thing about the film is that for once Hollywood permitted a playwright, N. Richard Nash, to write a screenplay which did no serious damage to his original. Nash has a pleasant story to tell. It concerns a brash, fast-talking confidence man who rides into a drought-stricken prairie town and promises to make rain. And he makes rain, too, but not before teaching a girl on the verge of settling down to becoming an old maid something about the power of faith in dreams. All this, including the symbolism involved, comes dangerously close to banality...
Miss Sarton means only to write about a Fur Person who is, the blurb tells us, her own cat. It is, then, a charming book that cares for the prodigious cat dignity it describes so well. But it isn't a children's book, first because the words are too big, and also because the intricate varieties of cat thought and the comments on the human variety of life seem meant for adult ears. Though these might bore children, The Fur Person is an uncommonly charming book for grown...