Melvin Maddocks
Melvin Maddocks
beyond breakfast imagination people single
It is beyond the imagination of the menu-maker that there are people in the world who breakfast on a single egg.
art certain means
To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
idealistic
Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
both controlled environment lights observing pedigree suit watching
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
demanding lonely modern whaling
Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whaling captain's-that, in essence, is the modern writer's message.
fair gives identity job keeps share somebody work
A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world.
fast gave readers standards truth
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
fast gave readers standards together
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough ""facts"" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
report
Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.
developed fully reminds
It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself.
approval honorary seal
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
acting archie barely born boy maybe poor spell
Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or maybe Hollywood.