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...Greek. More pioneering than the Irish, they helped develop America's hinterland, from Ohio to Texas. (In 1900, 1 out of 3 Texans was German in origin.) The town of Hermann, Missouri, still known for its wines, was typical: when laid out in 1837, streets were named for Schiller, Gutenberg, Goethe and Mozart...
...communications technology to share their most intimate urges. Sex, as Gerard van der Leun writes in the new computer-hip magazine Wired, "is a heat-seeking missile that forever seeks out the newest medium for its transmission." He cites the spread of printed smut in post-Gutenberg Europe, pornographic pictures in the age of photolithography, X-rated tapes in the video stores and dial-a-porn services on the 900 telephone lines...
...movement have already occurred outside the political sphere. If he cared about likely approve of the similar convulsions that technology has produced within the world of type design. The well chosen pieces in the exhibit convey the sense that the typographic snob-club that has determined letterom fashion since Gutenberg now teeters on the verge of collapse...
Typography began as an art understood and practiced by only a few people, but the first type designers worked under standards less conservative than their 18th- and 19th century successors, Gutenberg based his early type (not included in this exhibit) on the black-letter style used by German scribes (see the banner of The Boston Globe and The New York Times). Others experimented with types that looked like the monk with quill calligraphy to which literate people were accustomed. Such types become known as italics. Still others imitated everyday handwriting, and a fourth group copied the sturdy, draftsmanlike formality...
...Johannes Gutenberg...