Word: trash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliance, a rare humorist and a savage critic. For years he was the brightest star on the Baltimore Sunpapers. He was the forward lance in the march of American letters from John Fox Jr. (The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come) to Sinclair Lewis, helped kill off much of the trash in American writing. Many of the best U.S. writers of the century (Lewis, Dreiser, Cather, Pound. Fitzgerald) were discovered or trundled by Mencken in his happy days as co-editor (with George Jean Nathan) of the Smart Set (1914-23) and the old American Mercury (1924-33). He took...
...Workshop has been dusted off and brought back after nine years on the trash heap, says CBS Radio's Vice President Howard G. Barnes, because "drama stands up on radio," and CBS stations have been crying for more of it. Barnes, who put the Workshop back in working order, says that the connection between the old and new shows is that both are "experimental radio theater. We're going to try to go further into the world of ideas. We'll never get a sponsor anyway, so we might as well try anything. We hope...
...Herman Tal-madge's book [Nov. 14] sound vaguely familiar; Adolf Hitler had much the same feelings in regard to racial mixture. I never thought that the people of the U.S., or even of Georgia, would read even one word of such stupid filth. The best place for trash like Talmadge is the trash...
Newsboard candidates do not have to wear glasses, nor even be able to predict the new German ambassador, but they will have an opportunity to question this Crimed's successor on Quincy Street. The competition will involve not only newspaper technique, but the digging up of news everywhere from trash baskets to racetracks...
...public forms fascinated Marsh. For sardonic effect he sometimes reproduced in his paintings Manhattan's steady flow of tabloid headlines (DOES THE SEX URGE EXPLAIN JUDGE CRATER'S STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE?). But above the litter and trash of the streets, Marsh saw in the full-blown women the galvanizing, poetic image of the city. He painted them as triumphant nudes, only incidentally clothed, proud symbols with painted, empty faces...