Word: formative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoky jargon, ends with the distressing thought that nonviolence, man, will get you nowhere. Playing a born loser who digs the lesson too late, Davis at best displays his own brash will to win and fires suspicion that a coherent statement about inequality cannot be fitted comfortably into the format of a headline entertainer's syrupy one-man show...
What is needed, then, is a new format. For the pyramid style, Reston would substitute a "case study outline" that starts with an unbiased statement of the relevant facts. The facts are followed by a series of "definitions" of alternative courses of action which the government might follow, along with arguments for and against each policy. The advantage of this format, according to Reston, is that it allows people to make a choice instead of simply receiving a deluge of facts, both important and trivial...
...painful. A couple more failures may be mentioned, both of which try echoing past successes. "Obviously 5 Believers" has the word-obliterating background of "Subterranean," but has a subject less suited to chaotic rendering: a bluesy "baby, please come home" message that seems to justify the song's format, a blues repetition of each stanza's first line. But, as always, Dylan has bad luck with the blues format. The license for repetition seems to attract him to lyrics more banal than usual, when what is needed is something singularly well-chosen and repeatable. The other song, "Leopardskin Pillbox...
...beleaguered but talented staff is already half again as big as it was; Managing Editor E. E. ("Nick") Nichols as well as all the other veterans have been retained, and still more hands will be added. The paper has also been improved in format. Gone are the frontpage ads, the squiggly lines around feature pictures, and the banner headlines that did not vary in size whether they reported the start of a war or a local vice raid. Pages are now divided into six instead of eight columns. And the changes have already started to pay off. Circulation...
...Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, a first edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America went for $60,000. The four-volume "Elephant Folio," so called for its outsize format, contains 435 plates of U.S. fowl by the naturalist engraver. Only 129 sets are known to exist. The price nearly doubled the last sale of Audubon's Ele phant, which went in 1959 for $36,400. ¶At London's Christie's auction house, a 241-piece dinner service of 18th century tobacco-leaf Chinese porcelain sold for $97,000. Made under...