Word: formations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First of all, this is a newspaper," the National Observer said in its inaugural editorial. The editorial goes on to emphasize that the Observer is "a newspaper and not a magazine," and to enumerate the advantages of its chosen format, such as the wide pages and big headlines...
Graham Greene discovered in Brighton Rock (1938) that a thriller's format and a dose of Krafft-Ebing can lure usually unreflective readers into a brush with the profound issues of guilt and redemption. To a steady procession of writers-all of them willing to be thought deep-the formula has seemed good enough to copy. The latest imitator, and one of the ablest, is Anthony Bloomfield, novelist and BBC scriptwriter. His imitation is not slavish, since his weighing-up produces rather different totals than the master's. But setting, characters, mood and action are all attentively derivative...
TIME'S reportage certainly avoided the standard format "wine article," and wine drinkers and wine merchants everywhere should be grateful to TIME for shedding some light on one of the more widely misunderstood enjoyments of life...
...That Is Pure." C.D.'s approach has not always been secular. Born in 1936 in the cellar of the chancery of the Cathedral of St. Paul, Minn., the Catholic Digest of Catholic Books and Magazines, as it was then called, took its inspiration and format from the Reader's Digest, its contents from other Catholic magazines, and its charter from St. Paul (Philippians 4): "All that rings true, all that commands reverence, and all that makes for right; all that is pure, all that is lovely, all that is gracious in the telling...
...overall format goes, the Third New International smacks somewhat of vulgarity. The bold new Times Roman type face is both smaller and less elegant than the old font; the color illustrations are bright and ugly, and the charming obscurities once collected at the bottom of each page have either been eliminated or squeezed into the general text. Newness cries out raucously everywhere from this ill-conceived, middlebrow foofaraw. Look on these words, ye mighty, and despair...