Word: answers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has happened to the U.S. daily was a top subject at the A.N.P.A. convention. The general answer was easily come by: in the postwar period newspaper profits, caught in a narrowing gap between out-of-this-world costs and this-worldly revenue increases, have gone down by as much as 50%, thereby driving scores of papers out of competitive existence...
...existence to the profit margin. "The question is," writes Hartford Courant Editor Herbert Brucker in the Saturday Review, "will the cost squeeze continue its ravages until even those newspapers that enjoy a monopoly can no longer survive?" At last week's A.N.P.A. convention, no one had the answer. And the number of newspapers kept going down: in the last eleven months competitive papers had sold out to leave Tampa, Grand Rapids, New Orleans, Cincinnati and Charlotte, with a combined population of 2,450,000, as monopoly towns...
...first glance this "fighting ending" seems an adequate answer to the question of why Manolios (or Christ) had to die. Actually, the story after Manolios' death takes the form of an epilogue. Seen in this perspective, the "fighting ending" only suggests that fighting common enemies transcends fighting friends, which, rather than sanctioning battle, indicates a fine irony that Manolios' death brings not only unity, but more death...
...themselves and for the skill with which they are filled. The former experiences fully and convincingly the joys of virtue and of vice; the latter commits himself to detachment. Were his portrait drawn with less sympathy, a criticism of the Turk's detachment might be the biggest single answer in the movie...
...pony-tailed girls, the woman who sings folksongs "in the original ethnic," the man who says, "What I wouldn't give to be a conformist like all those others," are replaced by a "friendly neighborhood godmother come [by way of a television set] to bring you the answer to your most cherished dreams," and by little Munro, who was drafted into the army at the age of four. George, who "was concerned with his roots" and who "recognized he had no sense of himself" is a familiar figure in the coffee houses, but he gets into one of the stories...