Word: telegraphing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began, the British press had mostly been amusedly contemptuous of the venture, joshing Billy in editorial cartoons. After Billy's opening-night sermon, his notices improved somewhat. "Hellfire occupies the same discreet place in his theology as it does in most current versions of Christianity," marveled the Daily Telegraph. While the refined may shudder at Billy's lowbrow mass-appeal methods, declared the Times, "new and potent techniques of persuasion are there to be used for either good or ill. And a church which comprehends pop services and ton-up* parsons has no cause to be overnice about...
After long service on such national newspapers as the London Times, Observer and Sunday Telegraph, Fairlie discovered that the local, community-based papers of the U.S. were a welcome change of pace. Having spent seven months in the U.S. last year, he decided that the future of U.S. newspapers is bright, "partly as a result of the pressure of the reading public. Much more aware of the problems of urban life and of the inadequate response of political leaders, the readers want aggressive journalism. The will must be there in publisher or editor; but the economic base is strong...
...become more flexible in its politics, but is influential only with select members of the British Establishment and upper classes. While its own circulation has slipped 5,624 to 254,377 in the past five years, it has watched its chief competitors in the "quality" press-the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian-gradually win more readers. As Times Editor Sir William Haley, 64, put it in an editorial last week, "Uniqueness is not a virtue if it becomes mere eccentricity. There is no future for any newspaper as a museum piece...
...International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. shareholders heartily approved a proposed acquisition of the American Broadcasting Company, which has annual sales of $400 million; the move would raise ITT from 31st largest U.S. corporation to a rank, according to Chairman Harold S. Geneen, "within...
...cheery vulgarity strike an ugly contrast with the stately London that still persists in the quieter squares of Belgravia or in such peaceful suburbs as Richmond. They argue that credulity and immorality, together with a sophisticated taste for the primitive, are symptoms of decadence. The Daily Telegraph's Anthony Lejeune two weeks ago decried "aspects of the contemporary British scene which have not merely surprised the outside world but which increasingly provoke its contempt and derision. To call them symptoms of decadence may be facile as an explanation, but it has a disturbing ring of truth." Tradition-loving Londoners...