Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

I certainly do not advocate that the mind should be so open that the brains fall out". Sulzberger is also credited with the quote: "We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping.

During that time daily circulation rose from 465000 to 713000 and Sunday circulation from 745000 to 1. Arthur Hays Sulzberger (September 12 1891 – December 11 1968) was the publiArthur Hays Sulzbergerr of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961.