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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...
Beginning with President Lowell's active administration in 1909, the CRIMSON began to dig itself out of several ruts. Action pictures began to appear, and the typographical format was livened up. Editorials ceased to plod along, and news copy was generally sharper...
...fall of 1960, the CRIMSON began including most of its feature articles in a supplement, called the "Weekly Review." In the spring of 1961, the "Crimson Review" was published in a half-size, magazine format...