Word: page
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was still much ado about the nothing worn (above the waist, anyhow) by frail Model Christina Paolozzi, 22, in a full-page Richard Avedon photograph published by Harper's Bazaar in the January issue. The clothes-horsing magazine identified Manhattan-born Christina as a "Contessa" (she insists she is not), proudly admired "the classic spirit, abhorring the demure and falsely modest." But the photo was agitating the female press corps to its foundations. Tartly advised Syndicated Columnist Inez Robb: "The excursion into overexposure has unwittingly proved that not diamonds but clothes are a girl's best friend...
...warning came in a 63-page study made by Samuel E. Wood and Alfred E. Heller for a group of leading Californians who last year formed a non-profit organization called California Tomorrow. Their report concedes that various communities are trying to plan intelligently, but says that the planners are defeating themselves because of the lack of a master plan. "Although the dough looks good," say Wood and Heller, "the cake is not rising and the reason is simple: nobody wrote out a recipe...
Riding the Tube. The 32-page editorial package produced at the magazine's Main Line headquarters in Radnor, Pa., is custom-designed for televiewers. Apart from the listings, it rarely contains more than 10,000 words of text, a reading dose readily digestible during an evening's commercials. There are a few short articles on the never-never world of TV, a page of generally toothless criticism, a crossword puzzle beamed at the intelligence quotient of the shoot-'em-up crowd. (Sample crossword puzzler: "Car 54, Where____ You?") Of late, the magazine has erupted in a rash...
...vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject, might very well mean something to a grader. The true master of the generality is the man who can write a ten-page essay which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a * * anyone who reads...
...Pinfold (TIME, Aug. 12, 1957), and in 1960, he published the biography of Britain's late, literary Msgr. Ronald Knox. But the third book was only waiting. "He took the pile of manuscript, his unfinished novel, from the drawer and glanced through it," he wrote on the last page of Pinfold. "The story was still clear in his mind. He knew what had to be done...