Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than 10 million. In the 38 years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden blazed the trail with True Story, the confession industry has thrived by sticking to the same trite-and-true formula: first-person stories of subjective sex that are more often fiction than fact, and read like supercharged soap operas...
...people who read confession magazines, says Macfadden Publications, are "Wage-Town" folks. More than 80% of readers are women, mostly married and in the 25-30 age group. Slightly more than 50% finished high school. Their income levels are below-average. Thus, the confession slicks never indulge in drawn-out, complex psychological unravelings or high-flown dialogue...
...unrelated episodes in newspaper clips or readers' suggestions. The magazines rely heavily on free-lance contributors (top price: 5? a word), who have a free rein. Most writers and editors are women. Says True Confessions (circ. 1,339,922) Editor Florence Schetty: "Even confessions stories by men somehow read more red-blooded if they're actually written by women...
...school's Dean Sven Stelling-Michaud launched into a twelve-minute speech in fast-paced French ("The new member-state of Viet Nam is particularly happy to be able to participate in the work of the World Health Organization . . ."). With scarcely a second's delay, Giovanna read back the speech in Italian. After that a professor delivered another speech...
English which Giovanna read back in Italian. Then two other professors read Italian treatises on the Common Market. These Giovanna translated into English and French...