Word: contente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same consideration of sales has come to predominate in publishing, with more books than ever printed with an eye to large and quick profits, and not content. What Alexis De Tocqueville called "the trading spirit in literature" has long existed in American democracy, but it now seems rampant. The special distinction and social value the author had claimed since the times when books were more precious has disappeared, in this surfeit of profitable words. Writing has become still more a trade and less an art. But these changes are only the obvious consequences of subordinating the editorial room, or literary...
...bishops simply misunderstand his method. Like Jesuit Karl Rahner and other contemporary theologians, he starts his Christology "from below," with the man Jesus, and works upward toward his divinity. The council dogmas started "from above," with ideas about God's essence. Church officials, however, are convinced that content, not method, is at stake. Some censure from the German bishops or the Vatican could result...
...chemical restore lost or weakened memory? In reports to the journal Lancet, scientists suggest that a hormone found in the pituitary gland may have that effect. The remarkable mnemonic is vasopressin, which was previously known to help regulate the body's water content. The levels of vasopressin in the blood appear to decrease after about the age of 50, just when many people begin to complain of failing memories...
...dizzying dilemma: how to make the damnable text and footnotes count out correctly on each page. The new footnote would simply be a number, in brackets, that refers a reader to the corresponding number in the bibliography. Thi change is not totally revolutionary. Spared are what the author calls "content foot notes,"³ those often pointless little entries at the bottom of the page, in which scholars amuse4 themselves if not others. The author holds these in high regard: "By using footnotes judiciously you can fill your reader in on general information he lacks, satisfy his curiosity about fine points...
...Yellow Pages gears itself to its audience in style and price as well as content. "We wrote it at a tenth to 12th grade reading level, which for many women is still too high," Daugherty says. Because Ms. Magazine and the Cabot Foundation underwrote the book, it may cost only 25 cents in places where welfare offices subsidize it further. Its readers' poverty dramatizes the need for such a book, Daugherty points...