Word: papering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan and Bert Convy, backed by an adroit cast, star in a revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles Mac-Arthur saga of newspapering in the Chicago of the 1920s. When the time comes to put the paper to bed and bring down the final curtain on this breezy merriment, the audience may well feel sorry that it has to go home...
...Chronicle appears through what Russians call samizdat, which means self-publishing; it is a play on the Soviet term Gosizdat, the state publishing house. Behind closed doors, readers type copies of the newsletter, which they pass on to friends in chain-letter fashion. Fresh news items for the paper are sent back to the anonymous editors by the same chain of communication. Though anyone who copies or circulates the Chronicle faces severe penalties, ten issues of the Chronicle have appeared since it was launched in 1968. The front page of a recent issue carries a quotation from the U.N. Bill...
...complaining connoisseur has a moot point, and even if we accept it, we are tempted to ask, So what? Whatever you call those units of writing that he lays down on paper, they speak to us. They laugh at the absurdity of our obsessions and they clarity the source of our worries. He writes about...
...shirted, slightly flabby guy with shoulder-length blond hair and a floppy walrus mustache stood up from the group and stepped to the podium. After a couple of words of non-introduction, he began to read poems from a sheath of white paper. I assumed he was Richard Brautigan. He ranks very high on the list of characters that least remind me of Robert Lowell...
...that there hadn't been some history of scandal. In 1935, a group of editors were charged with obscenity for publishing Henry Miller's story about the usual excesses of Henry Miller. The issue was promptly confiscated, and the editors' pictures appeared in the paper beneath a story about "the new decadence at Harvard." "Glittering Pie" was published with more dashes than words, but Miller's evocation of the American scene as "drunkenness and vomiting, or breaking of windows and smashing heads" must have been aggravating then. Years later, Robert Bly and some of his friends glommed Eliot's college...