Word: newsprint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also there were a few crumbs of tobacco, and a pad of cheap newsprint that said American Eagle on the cover. I took the pad and used it for writing things down...
Doxiadis attempted to give shape to the discussions, and his daily summing up was accompanied by conceptual diagrams, which he draws on huge newsprint sheets with multicolored felt-tip pens. But dissatisfaction with the meandering course of the formal sessions was palpable. Elspeth Rostow, the highly political wife of former White House Aide Walt Rostow, sat in the background writing savage light verse. Eventually Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League, was provoked into a short, sharp speech. "This has been a real smorgasbord of great ideas," he said, "but we must focus on the problem of the will...
Another approach is to realize that to day's youngsters tend to detect false notes and are not readily dazzled by packaging, so the publisher simply lets young writers have their say in blunt, un affected prose on plain, tabloid-sized newsprint. Rolling Stone, the San Fran cisco-based rock-'n'-roll newspaper-mag azine, is doing well by doing just that...
...same cannot be said, though, for the newspaper and magazine columns that have proved so popular. Righter's is the Leo's share of that questionable market, but it is only a share. He has some 17 rival newsprint astrologers. Outstanding among the competition is Sydney Omarr (225 papers), a highly intelligent younger astrologer who has given up most of his private practice to devote
Mosaics of Rubble. Nine years ago, Kolář, who was primarily a symbolic poet, abandoned formal verse altogether. Now he spends nine hours a day gluing tiny fragments of newsprint and photographs onto plaques, bas-reliefs, house hold objects and sculpted forms. "I am still a poet," he says, "in the sense that I am a shaper of symbolic meanings from information spewed out by our technological civilization. But I'm using the poetry of objects because I feel that the irrational logic of our time cries out for fresh expression...