Writing of Today; Models of Journalistic Prose - Softcover

Cunliffe, John William

 
9780217662420: Writing of Today; Models of Journalistic Prose

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Excerpt: ... 'Oo! But how awfully cold-blooded. artist, or anybody else who can appreciate I thought you smiled to yourself all the it, still has the right to enjoy it, time you wrote it.' though he may not be able to do so 'My dear girl, it takes hours. If I as frequently as the gentleman who bought smiled continually all that length of time 5 it. the top of my head would come off.' This is a delicate point which permits 'Isn't it wonderful? Fancy building it of much argument and cannot be settled all up from jottings on an old envelope! either by stubborn insistence on the rights What's that piece of paper you took out of the purchaser or by the sound and of the typed copy?' 10 fury of the Italian artists who burned 'Oh, that's nothing to do with the lit- Lord Leverhulme's effigy in the public erary side of it,' I said, crumbling up the square and finished a perfect day by laylittle memorandum, which said that the ing a wreath on the altar of St. John, Editor presented compliments and regret- apparently under the impression that lie ted that he was unable to make use of the 15 was the patron saint of the artist in quesenclosed contribution. L. tion. Yet it can easily be held that no body has the right to destroy a work of jy art--even the artist himself. How much less a mere industrial magnate whose TTT, . ^ » -vt-t^ ^.. ^r^x^xT^Tx^ 20 on'y connection with the arts is the unHEAD AND BACKGROUND grateful one of patron! „._.„. „ Of course, we don't know why the peer [New York Times, November 4, 1920. By per- , ., , ' 1 ... ', ,r . mission.] saved the head and threw away the back ground. A psychoanalyst might tell us Direct action is spreading. In the boy- 25 that it indicated an ego-centric temperacott of Hungary and the attempted boy- ment which was willing to consider itc...

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