Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against the Communist yoke. "October? What's that?" cracks a writer. "Our calendar now has only eleven months." For him, free expression died in 1959, when Gomulka's party men took over the Writers' Union and choked off the "deviationists" with threats and a "shortage" of newsprint...
...Burnt-Out Case, by Graham Greene. Deadened in spirit, as a leper is benumbed in body, a famed architect takes himself off to a leper colony, closely followed by a venal journalist intent upon according him canonization-by-newsprint. Never has Greene stated more eloquently his lifelong argument with...
...more distinguished for unswerving Fidelity than for journalistic competence; Cuban Press Boss Carlos Franqui was simply heeding the cold voice of economic reason when he decided last week that Avance's circulation of 5,000 (down from 20,000 under Zayas) no longer justified consumption of scarce newsprint...
...amount of trade involved is tiny compared to the uproar. Only 300 Canadians live in Cuba, and Canada's exports to the island in 1959 amounted to less than 1% of its total exports-mainly newsprint, medicine, steel, copper tubing, codfish, malt and chemicals. Even this small export business had dropped: from $17.5 million in 1958 to $15.2 million in 1959, with 1960's first half showing a sharp dip to $4,800,000 v. $7,400,000 for the same period in 1959. Exports of newsprint fell from $2,600,000 to $999,000, salt codfish from...
...Piet Mondrian. But all his life Schwitters made a modest living painting realistic portraits aimed at pleasing the sitter. In 1919 he branched away from the Dadaists, founded his own movement, which he called Merz. The word had no meaning, but came from a fragment of a piece of newsprint bearing the phrase Commerz-und Privatbank that he had pasted on one of his collages. "Merz," he wrote later, "stands for freedom from all fetters, for the sake of artistic creation...