Newberry Library - Sun-Times Book & Author Series - Dr. Bergen Evans, Richard G. Stern, Robert J. Donovan, Field Enterprises records, February 8, 1962

Sun-Times Book & Author Series - Dr. Bergen Evans, Richard G. Stern, Robert J. Donovan, Field Enterprises records, February 8, 1962

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Sun-Times Book & Author Series - Dr. Bergen Evans, Richard G. Stern, Robert J. Donovan, Field Enterprises records, February 8, 1962

Title Sun-Times Book & Author Series - Dr. Bergen Evans, Richard G. Stern, Robert J. Donovan, Field Enterprises records, February 8, 1962

Date February 8, 1962

Subject Advertising, American newspapers, Authors, Chicago Daily News, Inc., Journalism, Oral histories, Television broadcasting

Description Introduction of Dr. Bergen Evans, author of "Comfortable Words" and professor of English at Northwestern. The role of status in speech. Ego and differences in pronunciation. Giving taxi drivers instructions in NYC. Pulling verbal rank. The difficulty of asking people how they pronounce a word or use a construction. Wording questions in public polls. Asking writers questions on contemporary word usage as a TV Host. Listening to find out how people talk. Disagreement of the ear and the teacher. The word "clerk." How status is indicated in our society. Broad versus flat "a." The unhistorical "h." Elegance and formality as signs of vulgarity. How servants dress. Midwestern speech. Immigrant families and language. The vulgarity of correcting other people's speech.

Introduction of Richard G. Stern, author of "Golk," and "Europe or Up and Down with Baggish and Schreiber." Defense of the craft of novel writing. Madame Verdurin's croissant in Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." Human reactions to other's tragedies. Small reactions in contrast with great historical events. Practical versus imaginative works and natural form. The imaginative as an escape. "In Defense of Madame Verdurin." The gift of the eccentric, the detailed, the minute, and the individual. Constellations of power. Jane Austen on the novel. William Wordsworth on the human mind.

Introduction of Robert J. Donovan, author of "The Assassins," "Eisenhower: The Inside Story," "Our First Fifty Years in Politics," and "PT-109: John F. Kennedy in World War II." Asking the president for help writing a book. Traveling to the Solomon Islands. Talking to Reginald Evans in Sydney, Australia. Coast watchers in World War II. Logs of messages about the men of PT-109. New Guinea and New Georgia. Meeting the men who saved the president and his men. Shark-infested waters. Remains of the Japanese planes the PT boats shot down, and the dugout from which the president received his assignment. Burning a canoe. Whether the PT boat could have avoided the Japanese destroyer. Eating a turtle. The skull of a Japanese soldier. Flying to Tokyo to meet with the officers of the destroyer. Debate over whether the destroyer sank PT-109 deliberately or by accident. Hosting a party in Tokyo to interview every man. Kennedy's current plateau.
Phil Silvers, on his way out. Accidentally attending the event. His daughter and her interest in church. Living in difficult times. The Bilko series.

Duration 1h2m38s

Archival Collection Title Field Enterprises records

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

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Call Number Midwest MS Field Enterprises

BibID 998157768805867

Size 28.68 MB

Original file name MMS - Field_Enterprises - RTR_024_o2.mp3

Unique Identifier NL11A8SJ

Visibility Class Public

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