Word: newsprint
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...sizes, weights and shapes, from the Juneau, Alaska Empire (circ. 3,050, an average 14 pages) to journalism's undisputed heavyweight champion, the Sunday New York Times, which often runs to 600 pages and tips the scales at 6 Ibs. In the massive Sunday barrage of newsprint, there is something for almost everyone: reprises of old murders, comics, crossword puzzles, fiction, verse, quotations from Scripture, galleries of young ladies recently betrothed, advice on how to pot begonias-and a little bit of news...
...masses had no time or training for such a luxury as taste, and could be reached and molded most effeclively by the noise, sensation and repetition which he liked himself." The Hearst-papers, Swanberg argues, "were not newspapers at all. They were printed entertainment and excitement-the equivalent in newsprint of bombs exploding, bands blaring, firecrackers popping, victims screaming, flags waving, houris dancing, and smoke rising from the singed flesh of executed criminals...
...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...
...countermeasure Quadros last week abolished highly preferential exchange rates that in effect subsidized imports of oil, wheat, newsprint, fertilizers and machinery. He warned that this would cause price rises in consumer items. But, he predicted, it would increase the cost of living a mere 2%, v. Brazil's 85% price jump in the past two years...
...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...