Word: formative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criminal lawyer, I confess that when I turned to the article, I had a preconceived feeling that a layman's oversimplification of complex technical issues, colored perhaps by a widespread attitude toward criminal law matters and constricted by the necessarily short format of your articles, could only result in an inconsequential piece of ephemera. This letter is penance for an injustice I did you. The article was a brilliant piece of writing, painstakingly fair and objective, and constituted a real public service. You have cracked a hardened artery in my working prejudices...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! As Actor Hal Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is timeless...
...violent opposition, either." Timesmen worried about the effect that Page One news would have on readers. After all, they had grown accustomed to opening to the middle of the paper for the news. For months, Timesmen manipulated sheaves of paper in an effort to arrive at the ideal format...
...magazine L'Express. Converted from a leftist political weekly to a newsmagazine only 18 months ago, L'Express has more than doubled its circulation to 280,000. Last spring Belgium produced its first newsmagazine. Special; last October Holland's biggest weekly, Elseviers, changed to a newsmagazine format. Italy's L'Espresso plans to make the change this year, and Italy's Vita, a newsmagazine with a disproportionate emphasis on political exposes and movie queens, is celebrating its seventh anniversary. Granddaddy of them all, of course, is West Germany's aggressive Der Spiegel, which...
William Sellers runs a heating-equipment company near Philadelphia, and he plays golf for business rather than pleasure. One June day in 1964, Sellers' game was running true to format the Manufacturers Golf and Country Club in Oreland, Pa. At the third tee, his mind on a potential deal, Sellers hit the ball so awkwardly that it flew to the rear and struck one of his partners, James Walsh, sales manager of the tank division of Bethlehem Steel in Dunellen, N.J. As a result, Walsh was blinded in his left...