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...Reader...
Lest Death come as it etc., let TIME stop annoying this lip reader with nonfish, non-fowl hybrids that do not allow the normal pronunciation of the joined words. RadiOrating may pass but radiorator reads as raydiORator or RADIOraytor; omnibusiness may be OMNIBUSeeness or omniBIZiness...
...Reader McNulty makes his point. Henceforth there will be no more unpronounceable TIME words, but TIME will be the judge, radiorator will stay but SECommission will be SEC Com-mission...
...reader of LIFE, I recognize it as being ostensibly devoted to the pictorial arts, and am willing to permit it an artist's freedom in the use of words. But as a reader of TIME, I have learned to expect notably correct writing. Consequently when that peculiar word photogenic showed itself in LIFE some time ago, I was inclined to be lenient. Now that it has appeared in TIME (Oct. 25, p. 25), I am inclined to protest...
...artists assume new proportions and come under new categories. Reasons appear for praising El Greco more than Botticelli and Raphael. But though Author Cheney thus revaluates Western art by a universal standard of "formal values," he recognizes the greatness of illustrative, objective art. By the time a reader arrives after 900 pages at Matisse and Derain, Braque and Picasso, he neither needs nor is given any disproportionate talk on these artists...