Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this age of mechanics and materialism dare to remain long on his particular highway. It is much safer and far more profitable to stand on the curb and sell motor cars or lead pencils. So only in the evenings by the hearth fire when the world of skyscrapers and tabloid newspapers and directors' meetings is obscured by thick curtains and a desire for rest and refreshment does courage come--vicarious courage, of course--and the world worn modern takes from the shelf a book of one of those who have made much of their highways, who have journeyed long upon...
...Educative Tabloid...
...first speaker for the affirmative, H. G. Rowell, said that modern education was a curse because it was carried on chiefly through the medium of the tabloid newspaper. These newspapers have taken over all the branches of education according to Rowell, who went on to say, "They educate us in psychology; ethics, especially those of the eternal triangle; science--I read in a tabloid paper the other day that a man is going to live 5,000 years on peanuts and rhubarb; philosophy--see all the new expressions they have given us; and politics. Education as taught by Socrares...
...Sibley '28, who opened the negative side of the argument, after remarking that tabloid newspapers seemed to be the only text books used at Yale, launched into a discussion of education as the formative influence in the development of the child. The child full of potentialities is driven by its natural curiosity to investigate and experiment, and as a guide in this inevitable development education becomes a necessity...
...tabloid journals flourishing today are at once a subway commonplace and a surface enigma. In the current Nation, Silas Bent undertakes to analyze their status and, after some purely journalistic comment, reaches this conclusion: the tabloids have discovered a new public. For, these new papers, easy to handle, to read, to look at, have run, in the city of New York for example, into a circulation of one and one quarter million copies without having proselyted from the older dailies, even considering retarded progress as well as actual impairment, more than one hundred thousand purchasers...