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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