Word: publishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what of the crities? "I would say they are a necessary evil," he said laughingly. "There must be crities because if not, every man with talent or without talent would publish books; and it would be casier to fool the reader than it is today. The only trouble is there are some crities whom we can also easily fool, but what can you do?" Singer shrugged and continued. "Most people live according to a cliche. Although they fight cliches and the Establishment, they become Establishment themselves. It's almost in human nature that people imitate one another...
Part of the rage must come from the fact that, for over two hundred years of slavery, the black man was usually forbidden to write, publish or even learn to read. Despite this prohibition, there were still about 100 Negro poets of varying significance before the Civil War, many of whom managed to publish their poems in church manuscripts or under white patronage. The best known was the Revolutionary poet Phillis Wheatley (who coined the phrase "first in peace" to describe George Washington and wrote heroic couplets in the style of Alexander Pope...
Solzhenitsyn is trying to combat the threats to him on two fronts. He has pressed Soviet authorities for an answer to the question "Why do you refuse to publish me in Russia?" To prevent unauthorized publication of his works in the West, he has repeatedly and vainly asked the Soviet Writers' Union to protect his author's rights. Now that he has been expelled from the union, Solzhenitsyn has engaged a Swiss lawyer, Fritz Heeb, to balk what he regards as "the exploitation and distortion" of his work by publishers in the West. In Zurich last week, Heeb...
...working group in the University-wide Committee on Governance will publish a discussion paper in late April covering "broad issues" in Harvard's investment policy...
...PRESS (1937): The department-store theory of publishing, the give-the-public-what-it-wants theory, is the prevailing theory of publishing today. The first and principal danger of the Press-that-gives-the-people-what-they-want is that there is no significant restraint on vulgarity, sensationalism and even incitement to criminality. The second danger, which is perhaps even more insidiously deleterious to the public taste and morals, is the fact that there is in this situation an enormous financial incentive to publish twaddle-yards and yards of mediocrity, acres of bad fiction and triviality, square miles of journalistic...