Word: formations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...announcing plans for the new Tiger format last month, Board Chairman Stephen Kroll said, "The whole field of college humor magazines is in such bad shape that we felt a new direction was needed.... The old jokes that made collegians laugh years ago are no longer funny, and a college magazine that merely impersonates the New Yorker has little future...
When asked if the 'Poon would change to a serious format he replied, "Oh, no, definitely, definitely, no, no." The 'Poon will remain a "high class" humor magazine, he said...
Characteristically, the style is staccato, bone-bare, oracular and dull. The format is uninviting; usually four letterhead-size pages printed to look as if they had come fresh from a typewriter. The contents often suggest the confidential whisper of a race-track tout. The cost can be incredibly high: as much as $125 a year for some 3,000 words a week-an annual total well below the word count in one average issue of the New York Times (185,000). Yet so insatiable is the public appetite for inside dope that in the few decades since its birth...
Riesman's informality does not disturb these particularly; indeed, several essays are devoted to defending his style and format. But as formidable assemblage dissects the Crowd concept by concept and definition by definition, this spectre of formal rigor re-Words like values, social character, social power are steadily and carefully redefined throughout the book, and author after author sets up a framework to discuss American society...
...decision to reconsider the English diplomas rose out of last spring's meeting of the Overseers. At that time changes sought included: 1) a seal and possibly other decoration on the diploma, 2) a larger format than the design approved last year, which should be 3) wider than it was high...