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Newspaper editors had to wonder too. The New York Times, which gallantly runs page after page of important foreign policy documents, feels no such compulsion at conventions; even the keynote speech is reduced to excerpts. The Times, says Deputy Managing Editor Seymour Topping, aims to set before its readers-expert and nonexpert-a "high quality smorgasbord"; that way, presumably, the reader on the run can find enough nourishment without having to sample every dish. Jim Hoge, the Chicago Sun-Times editor, drastically cut back his paper's coverage and space on the second day of the Democratic Convention, convinced...
...heart of the magazine. Says Smith: "The writing has gotta be laconic, emotional, exciting. I like to see fire fighters in every story and know what they feel and think." The color photographs and art work will be vibrant with reds, yellows and burnt oranges because Smith wants "a reader to feel his adrenaline flowing when he picks up the magazine, just like a fire fighter does when he's putting out the flames...
...reader, a shade skeptical and several shades amused, is reminded of another self-portrait Sutton says he made. It was a plaster cast of his own head, cunningly painted and landscaped with cuttings from his hair. This marvel, sculptured surreptitiously in a Pennsylvania prison, was supposed to take Sutton's place in his cell bunk on the occasion of a jailbreak. But the cell block was searched and the extraordinary head found before Sutton could test its effect. The artist does not seem to have been unduly discouraged. He had, after all, astonished his audience...
...what bad results may be expected. Occasional modernisms ("A cheap shot," "Say the magic word," "I had gotten through to him") clink absurdly, and it is hard, when they do, to imagine the pharaoh's golden barge ghosting through chill nights on the Nile. Yet a patient reader is rewarded by some provocative notions about Akhenaten and his cousin-wife Nefertiti. the royal beauty whose sculpted head is, after the Sphinx, the best-known work of Egyptian...
...consider a "great disorder under heaven," the Miltons conclude the Chinese have found a safe course: to avoid alliances that could destroy their domestic balance, and to work within their boundaries to democratize their own bureaucracy. But their conclusion, like their book, does not explain the Cultural Revolution. The reader is still left wondering how so many people became involved in one of the greatest mobilizations of the century, and what that movement changed. It will take more accounts and more analyses, perhaps, to explain the urge to create such great disorder within the boundaries of one's own nation...