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...first is the diploma incident of last April. In this case the Administration took a stand that was disapproved by an overwhelming majority of Harvard students and refused to yield an inch. Only after a major riot did the University decide to change the format of the diploma. Had this decision been made earlier, the riot and a good deal of grief could have been prevented...
...administrative advisor for the . Byron Stookey Jr., associate of Advanced Standing, forsees successful seminar series due to speakers and the small number participants in this closed- discussion." Stookey concluded, we have developed a with an interesting and format...
...First of all, this is a newspaper," the National Observer said in its inaugural editorial. The editorial goes on to emphasize that the Observer is "a newspaper and not a magazine," and to enumerate the advantages of its chosen format, such as the wide pages and big headlines...
...part, this difficulty is due to the great size of the National Observer, and its six-column format. (Most newspapers have eight columns.) The page is as long as the New York Times, and about an inch and a half wider, which means the reader practically has to spread the paper out on the floor to be able to handle it. The columns, therefore, are unusually wide, with two results: the type is hard to read, and pictures, if used at all, almost have to be on the gigantic side...
Graham Greene discovered in Brighton Rock (1938) that a thriller's format and a dose of Krafft-Ebing can lure usually unreflective readers into a brush with the profound issues of guilt and redemption. To a steady procession of writers-all of them willing to be thought deep-the formula has seemed good enough to copy. The latest imitator, and one of the ablest, is Anthony Bloomfield, novelist and BBC scriptwriter. His imitation is not slavish, since his weighing-up produces rather different totals than the master's. But setting, characters, mood and action are all attentively derivative...