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The Font of Least Resistance, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
October 1, 2013
On the Shelf
Fave
: yet another word with a surprisingly venerable
history
.
A bookie’s take
on the Nobel Prize in Literature.
“Fame has a dark side. When
Times New Roman
appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, ‘I submitted to the font of least resistance.’”
The strange mystery of editor
Ronald Lane Latimer
.
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