Word: readership
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...using the issues of Playboy for his dissertation on magazine fiction and social change. Gay's work will consider the portrayal of women, blacks and social values in various magazines he has selected. The dissertation will include an analysis of time trends in these magazines as a function of readership...
...independently wealthy Peretz, whose wife Anne has Singer Co. holdings, becomes NR's third owner since its founding in 1914. Since that time, NR has built an enviable reputation among U.S. intellectuals for its scholarly dissent and literate insights. Though its readership is solid (circ. 100,000) as well as influential, NR faces mounting postal and publishing costs. Recently the weekly has run at a small profit, which is unusual for opinion journals. But red ink is always a threat, and Harrison, 58, figured that it was time for a younger angel with a muscular bankroll...
GRACE PALEY is a great and neglected American writer. Her only previous book was a wonderful collection of short stories called The Little Disturbances of Man. It appeared in 1959 and immediately began to win its author a small but important readership. Now another collection of stories, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, has been published. It continues Paley's highly developed tone and diction at a level a little lower than in her first work but a lot higher than practically anyone else writing stories in this country today...
...York-reared newspaperman began with the Journal in early 1946, after leaving the Air Force, and his loyalty is "kind of unusual in the newspaper business." Otten, now at the helm of the 25-member Washington staff, is professedly chauvinistic about the Journal and its readership...
Whenever Otten strayed in his definition of "readership" to include a more democratic population than the Journal's audience, he became somewhat patronizing and wary. Delivering one of his more earnest and sweeping statements of the conversation, he said, "These are highly emotional times. People don't want calm analysis; they want their prejudices confirmed. The university, the church, the press, all institutions are under challenge. It's the Greek custom of killing the messenger who brings the bad news...