Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point of accusations of violation of the entire Bill of Rights. This, in a nutshell, is the opinion of the Harvard CRIMSON; although succeeding as an instrument of influence, it fails well as an instrument of Harvard's motto, "Veritas." The extreme bias of its presentation, regardless of its content, has, I regret, only alienated a few; it intrigues most. The chief device employed by the CRIMSON to further its causes is the non-recognition of fair criticism, as well as of letters to the editors, unless they coincide with the doctrines of CRIMSONism." Concerning McCarthy, its stand refuses...
...Nardone v. U.S., smuggling), that wiretap evidence was inadmissible, because "the phrase 'no person' comprehends federal agents, and the ban on communication to 'any person' bars testimony to the content of an intercepted message...
Both scientists and laymen had ideas, and all week long they aired them to their hearts' content. "In my opinion, even though I am a scientist." wrote Chemist A. L. Bacharach, "fissionable (an Americanism, I believe), is not admissible, though fissile is." Nonsense, cried a gentleman from Churchfields. Woodford, "it is unquestionable that 'fissionable' is objectionable to the impressionable; but to the knowledgeable it is unexceptionable." Added someone from Harrow, Middlesex: "Fissionable is fashionable, and surely reasonably admissible. Fissible is risible...
...Swift Jr. yarns have made one concession to the times that old Tom would have scorned: three scientists, all Ph.D.s, have been hired to ride herd as technical advisers. The publishers feel they are necessary, and they are probably right. Readers of the old series were content with plenty of action and took Author Appleton's say-so for proof that Tom was an inventive genius. Today's schoolboy savants want the incredible, but they want it backed by a patter of scientific know-how. And of course the dialogue has changed. The Tom of 1910 put real...
Astonishing Adults. The bookstores last week were full of fresh attempts to bridge the chasm. U.S. publishers were offering close to 1,400 titles classified by age groups from two to 17. In content, they ranged from "exploring the farmyard becomes dangerous when Smudge and Pudge meet the bees'' to matters of an interplanetary nature ("carefully checked by experts"). Most of the authors ignored the settled conviction of that old constructional genius, Kenneth Grahame, that the best way to bridge the classic chasm is to grasp what the adult world looks like from the child's side...