Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ways, the nerve center of TIME's editorial operations is an oblong counter stretching along the east side of the Time & Life Building's 25th floor. We call it the copy desk. Day and night, its staff oversees the movement of TIME stories from writers to senior editors to the managing editor to researchers, logging, typing, reading and routing stories. At week's end a TIME story may have been retyped as many as eight times. Copy-and proofreaders check for errors in spelling, punctuation and syntax...
...copy and the autocrat of TIME style has been the quiet, tough-minded chief of the copy desk, Harriet Bachman. This month she decided to retire from policing abbreviations, hyphens, capitals, captions, etc., to tend to her antique collection and study Russian. In announcing Bachman's retirement, Managing Editor Henry Grunwald wrote: "We will miss her as the supreme arbiter of grammar and defender of TIME's English prose against many enemies, ranging from outright barbarism to simple negligence...
Irving Howe is one of those writers for whom the designation "a gentleman and a scholar" was minted. Professor of English at New York's Hunter College, literary critic and editor of the democratic-socialist magazine Dissent, Howe belongs to an intellectual tradition in which literature and politics, aesthetics and morals are not mutually exclusive...
...event #1, adds event #2 and executes the sequence #1 & #2 in the same specified time interval; dancer performs events #1 & #2 & #3 in the same specified...and so on. An entire issue of The Drama Review recently was devoted to similar schemata, labeled "post-modern dance" by the editor...
Early this fall the Crimson carried a brief letter to the editor protesting publication of a suggestive advertisement for the "Stimola Condom." ("It's like hundreds of tiny fingers urging a woman to let go," the ad promised.) The letter's author, Matt A. Thomas '77, objected to the graphics and text of the ad and to the "type of sex relations the product facilitates"--pre-marital sex. He added, "I believe sex between married partners can be the highest expression of love...Any person can and should develop the discipline and self control to postpone such gratification until...