Word: readerships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unfounded) rumors that the Advocate would fold. Although the audit was actually prompted by a technical mix-up of the magazine's tax-exempt status, the prevalence of these rumors illustrate another equally acute problem that the Advocate staff has had to deal with recently: a general loss of readership and respect in the Harvard undergraduate community...
...Advocate's current executive board, while tipping its hat to tradition, is trying to spruce up the magazine in many ways. By experimenting with its format, board members say they hope to appeal to a somewhat broader readership. With certain changes in administrative organization, they believe the Advocate may surmount the financial troubles that have proved so debilitating in the past. And by attempting to draw more people into the building itself, they hope to help it become more of a focal point for the Harvard literary community...
...Murphy and other members of the staff stress that it is undesirable and unrealistic for the Advocate to attempt to attract too broad a readership. "It wouldn't be necessarily elitist to say that not everyone can understand poetry," says David Longobardi '84, whose position as "Pegasus" on the magazine entails scheduling poetry readings and other literary visits. "It's the nature of art to be esoteric," he insists. "Criticizing the Advocate for being esoteric because it deals with art is like saying that the Journal of American Medicine is esoteric because it deals with medicine...
...front. While gracious, he was, as usual, all business." When the four-hour interview was over, Carter said: "TIME wrote some tough stories about me in the past, but I'm really happy you're publishing me. In TIME my book will reach the largest potential worldwide readership...
...mystique of influence surrounding Daily Variety (circ. 19,650) and the Hollywood Reporter (circ. 15,551) is all the more impressive given their small readership and narrow focus (Variety covered the war in Lebanon by noting how it had affected the box office at Beirut movie theaters). Moreover, both publications can be fooled into announcing projects that have neither financing, script nor star, nor reasonable likelihood of ever getting them. Admits respected Variety Reporter James Harwood: "We have printed hundreds of titles that were never made." No one seems to mind. Explains Producer Albert Ruddy (The Godfather, The Cannonball...