Word: publishability
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...obviously, is the former, and even to give the paper the benefit of the doubt by conceding that its more offensive satires were inspired not by racism but by misapplied zeal does not excuse the Review. Irresponsible journalistic techniques cannot be condoned, especially on the part of conservatives who publish because of what they see as liberal biases in other media...
...casting aspersions on some noble cause, and complaints will pour in. People worry about the press's responsibility to exercise its power with delicacy, the ability of the printed word to wreak havoc in people's lives, the need for social restraints to balance writers' unassailable freedom to publish whatever they want. It's rare, however, that the book industry faces such a conundrum, and rarer still that authorities try to crack down on book publishers. Freedom-of-the-press buffs, then, will do well to watch closely as a French publishing house and two Parisian author-journalists grapple...
...Publisher Moreau makes a cynical and transparent attempt to defend Suicide on the grounds that "the right of suicide is an inalienable right, like the right to work, the right to like certain things, the right to publish." The last item in the series, of course, is key. It doesn't take much imagination to see the results if life-and-death information becomes part of the general flow of carelessly-tossed-off junk books...
...help raise scores. Yet in recent years students across the country have been paying hundreds of dollars to take special SAT prep courses. Acting on the evidence that students can study their way to higher scores, the National Association of Secondary School Principals announced this fall that it would publish SAT teaching materials in an effort to make the advantage available to all public school students. Could these cram courses be responsible for last week's announced improvement? Insists Hanford: "The rise in scores is due primarily to a refocusing of attention in the schools on academic subject matter...
Acknowledging that his career has been atypical, Engell said yesterday. "It's difficult in the humanities to publish the amount necessary to become well enough known in the profession in a short number of years. I feel fortunate I have had the opportunity to write what I have...