Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many young newsmen, the passing of the old guard is not cause for fond goodbyes but bitter good riddances. They represented, says one young Tribune staffer, the "tired old practice of letting the status quo define what the news is." Mindful that their young reporters reflect the tastes of the growing number of young readers, editors are letting their younger charges have their head-within limits. Explains Emmett Dedmon, editorial director of Field Enterprises, which owns the Daily News and the Sun-Times: "This is the era of the young, socially aware reporter. We allow them more freedom today...
...feels that such standards are essential if readers are to have "any indication of the social levels of words." But Morris rejects suggestions that the new dictionary is an "American Fowler." Despite their prescriptive brilliance, he says, the Fowler Brothers (Dictionary of Modern English Usage, 1926) could not possibly reflect a true cross section of the literate community of their time. As Morris sees it, "This is what we believe our usage panel has accomplished...
...magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain this you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls...
People under thirty define the way things are in terms of the universe, those over thirty, in terms of their family and personal aspirations. Quite simply, when you get to be thirty your perception of the world begins to reflect your mold...
...EXPERIENCE: A tourist need no longer content himself with enjoying what he sees. He can give himself a feeling of really using his time by taking pictures. It is easy to understand why love is so vulnerable to competition if we reflect that we are spending time on only one person and cannot even take photographs of the occasion...