Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandstand. Vast open spaces in between with enormous Pop-Artifacts strewn along the way deliberately aimed at re-creating the Pepperland atmosphere of the movie "Yellow Submarine" and in the unfettered Florida sunshine amid throngs of healthy young people (46,000 on the last day) it came as close as is possible in real life to achieving its purpose...
...entirely clear why the Faculty should ever want to close a portion of a meeting. The idea certainly cannot be to keep what transpires a secret, for word-of-mouth and the CRIMSON's artificial reconstruction of the meeting with Dean Ford's help make the goings-on more or less public property. But assuming the Faculty wants such an option, it should be one the Faculty exercises in special cases rather than a standard which students must repeatedly petition their way around...
Flapping Galoshes. Lorimer made fiction king, and fiction writers princes. There was something close to divine right in Irvin S. Cobb's tone when he remarked, "The uncanny soundness of its literary judgment is demonstrated firstly by the fact that more people on this planet read the magazine and like it than any other magazine. And secondly by the fact that it buys nearly everything I write." F. Scott Fitzgerald walked the Post's cork-floored editorial corridors, his galoshes flapping, selling the short stories that kept him living high between books...
...Nimble. It seemed that the glory days would never end. By 1940, circulation had climbed close to 3,000,000. The Post had become almost as hallowed a symbol of the American way as the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, its neighbors across Philadelphia's Independence Square. With the outbreak of World War II, the country-and the Post-took on a more serious air. Ben Hibbs, a former Kansas newspaperman and editor of Country Gentleman, who took over the Post in 1942, deployed a staff of crack war correspondents. He also changed the fiction-nonfiction ration from...
...departures it had made by that time were improvements. It had oriented itself to more cutting issues, achieved a more youthful flair, and introduced more thoughtful content. But all this came too late. The Post's frenzy of rejuvenation was really a dance of death, and those close to the magazine knew it. The end, said Editor-at-Large Harold Martin, was "like being told that a relative had died after a long incurable illness. There is a certain feeling of relief that there won't be any more suffering...