Word: readership
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...screwing a score of men. In this she finds her freedom; her husband begs her to return to him and she tells him to get lost. In other articles, Letty Cottin Pogrebin quotes 42 women on how to cool off an over-amorous boss and across two pages "the readership" praises "the unsung heroes" of the women's movement--who are, without exception men who help their wives with the housework...
...technological progress, from nerve gases to nuclear weaponry. How do people feel about scientists today? Two British weeklies, the New Scientist, which reports developments in research and technology for a largely scientific audience, and New Society, which is dedicated to the social sciences, recently collaborated on an unusual readership poll in order to find an answer-and also to determine whether scientists see themselves differently from how nonscientists see them...
...Concerned but bullish, Editor Dwyer plans to broaden High Times' appeal to include the clothes, food and homelife of the pot generation, and investigative stories on the drug agencies. Says Dwyer: "Our audience is optimistic and pleasure-oriented. We're putting it all together for this readership...
...Good lord!" exclaimed Frost, "you can't have many readers." In fact, Clarke's readership was never impressive and rarely extended beyond the shores of his homeland. Yet until his death last year at the age of 78. Austin Clarke had claim to the grandest title of the richest language in the world: Ireland's greatest living poet. It was not a claim that went unchallenged, for some maintain that Thomas Kinsella had and continues to hold the title hands down. But since W.B. Yeats's death in 1939, Clarke was Ireland's unofficial poet laureate. The Collected Poems...
...conditions had changed, the production of "undesirable" directors was stopped. Writers are much more difficult to silence. They may not be published and thus lose touch with their readers, but they can still write privately, "for the drawer" as they now say in Prague. Besides, the importance of a readership for the writer still has to be proved: Salinger has for the last 20 years deliberately secluded himself from a public he considers rather a nuisance to his creativity...