Word: ballpoints
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...your article "New but Not Necessarily Improved" [ESSAY, July 22], you assert that "ballpoint pens are better than fountain pens, and cheaper too." Do you not realize that a man is his handwriting, and his handwriting is his pen? The fountain pen is beaux arts, bold strokes, bound leather, polished brass and character. The ballpoint is Bauhaus, thin waterlines, paperbacks, plastics and personality. The fountain pen is John Ruskin; the ball point, Madonna. A man with a fountain pen in hand holds in the secret places of his heart starched cuffs and high collars, a company with "transcontinental...
Still, even if one is inclined to resist change for the sake of change, one must resist the instinct to oppose all change. Some new things are definite improvements on the old. Pampers are better than diapers. Ballpoint pens are better than fountain pens, and cheaper too. LP records are better than the old 78s that could play only about one-fifth of the Fifth Symphony and cracked if you even looked at them too hard. (But now that we have thrown away all the 78s, do we really have to throw away all the LPs and invest in digital...
Last week, Benjamin Running, a 28-year-old New York graphic designer, posted a video of himself uncapping a ballpoint pen and jamming the barrel of the pen into the round keyhole of a $50 Kryptonite lock, rotating it until the lock popped free. The U-shaped bicycle locks are popular among bicycle owners, who have been told that these locks are the safest that money...
Cross, the company that developed the ballpoint pen and the mechanical pencil, opened its first-ever retail store this weekend at Zero Brattle...
Knowles said that two pens, a two-inch long bullet shaped “Metal Ion” gel pen and a red, black and yellow starred ballpoint pen called “Kimono” were designed exclusively for the store...