Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moaning Torchsinger Libby Holman, thinking back nearly 20 years, "I really didn't know what I was doing. I suppose my voice had a natural quality. . . ." Now, after years of on-&-off retirement, she was singing in a Manhattan nightclub. "Today, I have studied and really feel I understand . . ." said she gravely to an interviewer. "I think so few people know anything about the music that is indigenous to their own country...
...comprehensible to one "busy man"-a vastly different notion from daily newspaper departments (women's, sports, finance, etc.), each appealing to special groups. To get all of TIME into one man's head it had first to be put in language that one man could understand. Later, the idea was expressed this way: "TIME is written as if by one man for one man." A lot of TIME'S subsequent experiments grew out of the difficulties and opportunities in this notion...
...congestion of the ducts of thought." The reader's digestion of news will never be "effortless." TIME, however, tries to sift, sort, condense and explain the news by this simple standard: How much effort can an ordinarily educated and intelligent man or woman be expected to use in understanding this story? It's no use saying that 80 million Americans ought to have a thorough grasp of physics by this time next year. Whether they ought to or not, they won't. Until they do, the journalist who wants to communicate anything about physics must continue...
...news with sense-making background. That the news in TIME reaches the reader later than newspapers or radio might bring it is an obvious disadvantage to him. Only if its presentation of news is better than the newspaper reports (i.e., sharper in detail, keener in insight, easier to read, understand and remember), can TIME overcome the disadvantage of being "late." When the advantage outweighs the disadvantage, TIME has a value; when it doesn't, TIME hasn't. That is the challenge that forces TIME'S staff to work under an hour-by-hour pressure quite as severe...
...lurking luminosity, a cozy thought." Against the current of his day, Niebuhr pursues a quest into the nature of God, of man, of sin. What Niebuhr thinks has a profound connection with the business of establishing and maintaining a democratic civilization. Niebuhr is not easy to understand (TIME'S editors, at least, do not find him easy); but it is TIME'S job to make Niebuhr's thought clear to those of its readers who are not adept at the language of theological discussion...