Word: writing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freedom to write what you think...
Clipping Coupons. Expressed in the hostility toward public spending were both longaccumulated annoyance at the bite of taxation and sharp awareness of the nibble of price upcreep. In response to a recent Los Angeles Times campaign urging readers to write to their Congressmen in protest against inflationary federal spending, more than 30,000 letters descended on California members of Congress. The Chicago Tribune printed handy "stop inflation" coupons, and more than 130,000 were clipped out by readers and mailed to Springfield and Washington...
...sores of California Republicanism: how Nixon won his 1950 Senate race without ever being endorsed by name by Republican Warren, then California's Governor. Author Mazo, complained the Chief Justice, was just trying to "promote the presidential candidacy of Nixon ... I don't care what you write about Nixon as long as you don't try to build him up over my body...
...learned more about writing from White than from anybody else," said Humorist James Thurber once of E. B. (for Elwyn Brooks) White, the lucid essayist whose weekly wit led off The New Yorker for years before he deserted Manhattan to write on a farm in Maine. From Thurber it was high praise, and it spoke another truth: behind every writer stands a teacher of some kind. Behind E. B. White himself, it turns out, stands the exhortative ghost of a curious and delightful man, the late Professor William Strunk Jr., proprietor of English 8 at Cornell University when White passed...
...that a new element has recently made its appearance-anxiety. "During the war and the subsequent conflict in Korea, the youngsters prayed for those in the armed services. But the war dangers seemed far away; the children themselves did not feel threatened. It is different now. The prayers they write today contain pleas for protection in the event of war, nuclear attack or other crisis ... By the time they are twelve, they have become active sharers in the anxiety...