Word: newsmagazineâ
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...universe of knowledge, it appeared, was still manageable; it could be comprehended through short cuts, and if that was impossible, then through hard, serious effort. TIME fitted that perception. It was a short cut, a gadget of knowledge. But it was also more. The very invention of the newsmagazine???with its orderly rubrics, its organization of information?symbolized the conviction that people could grasp the world and make sense of it. TIME was didactic. Parentheses were filled with statistics about height, weight, area, population. "Learned footnotes" sprouted at the bottoms of pages. But at the start, articles were short, often...
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