“In these letters to Ridley, Hunters Gonzo style began to rear its head. One of the characteristics of the style Hunter developed was his preoccupation of getting the story.”

— William McKeen

In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 73

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American academic 1954

William McKeen (1954) American academic

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 16, The Genetic Miracle, p. 299

“Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.”

Alexander Pope book Windsor Forest

Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 61.

“Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?”

John L. Lewis (1880–1969) American labor leader

When asked about the presence of communists and other radicals working as organizers for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee; quoted in Life magazine, October 25, 1954

“.. no true artist ends with the style that he expected to have when he began,... it is only by giving oneself up completely to the painting medium that one finds oneself and one's own style.”

Robert Motherwell (1915–1991) American artist

The School of New York, exhibition catalogue, Perls Gallery, 1951; as quoted in the New York School – the painters & sculptors of the fifties, Irving Sandler, Harper & Row Publishers, 1978, p. 46
1950s