noises called headlines, journalese, and telegraphese—
phenomena that still dismay the literary community with its 
mannerisms of supercilious equitone that mime typographic 
uniformity. Headlines produce such effects as

                                BARBER HONES TONSILS
                                FOR OLD-TIMER’S EVENT

referring to Sal (the Barber) Maglie, the swarthy curve-ball 
artist with the old Brooklyn Dodgers, when he was to be guest 
speaker at a Ball Club dinner. The same community admires the 
varied tonality and vigor of Aretino, Rabelais, and Nashe, all of 
whom wrote prose before the print pressure was strong enough 
to reduce the language gestures to uniform lineality. Talking 
with an economist who was serving on an unemployment 
commission, I asked him whether he had considered newspaper