Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dunlap's shop to supervise the printing?which accounts, perhaps, for the caprices of punctuation, capitalization and spelling that occur in the printed document. On July 5 and 6, the Declaration was sent out to all the colonies, and one copy was inserted into the Congress's "rough" (secret) journal...
When a young Englishman named Nicholas Cresswell was touring the Colonies last year, his journal guardedly referred to the "Sgnik Sdneirf that he met. Cresswell's code was transparent. But the need for protective secrecy on behalf of the "King's Friends" in the New World is dramatic enough. By now, the harassing of known Loyalists?an estimated 15% of the population?has reached a point that might best be described by a bit of tavern-house doggerel: "Tories with their brats and wives Should fly to save their wretched lives...
...full Declaration this week, and the news will probably appear in Williamsburg's two rival Virginia Gazettes and Boston's New England Chronicle next week. Readers in Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia and New Jersey?where there are at present no newspapers published?will have to rely on whatever journals eventually arrive from other states. In some places, publishers are making up in patriotic zeal what they lack in timeliness. New York's John Holt, for instance, plans to print the text of the Declaration on a special page of this week's Journal with an exhortation to readers "to separate...
...Widener's idea of a temple of knowledge. "It's really Siberia down there," Axel said last week. He estimated that he spent 10-12 hours a day inside a C-level stall while working on his thesis which deals with the founding of The Nation, an intellectual journal of the post-Civil War period. "The walls are bedrock. I sat there shivering and turning pages. The only problem was falling asleep." He laughed, "I haven't been able to work so well since I had that one bare bulb over my desk in Greenough freshman year...
...voice for the black community, which until the '60s it was. Metropolitan dailies now cover some stories of special interest to blacks, as do local television stations. Moreover, the black press has largely abandoned its protest rationale of almost 150 years (the first black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, was published in 1827) without finding a new identity for itself...