Word: synopticon
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...February's "The Easy Chair," Lapham dropped the bomb. Harper's would become "a synopticon of fact and fiction," summarizing ideas and trends, reprinting short articles from other sources, providing a list of interesting facts from around the world and establishing a Forum on ideas of national interest. The monthly that had won the 1983 National Magazine Award for General Excellence was going to cut back on its essays and polemics, admit that jounalism was at its nadir, and begin dealing in second-hand short forms and juxtapositions of images...
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