CliffsNotes have saved us all at some point, but the yellow and black pamphlets can get a little wordy.
By Elizabeth Minkel August 23, 2010 CliffsNotes have saved us all at some point, but the yellow and black pamphlets can get a little wordy.
Emerson's book was very persuasive, but in 1891 he published a black-bordered pamphlet "The Death of Naturalistic Photography," in which he recanted his opinion that the accurate reproduction of nature was synonymous with art.
With a $4,000 loan, a basement office and a healthy dose of can-do ingenuity, Hillegass started his own company and invented the prototype edition of Cliffs Notes, those yellow-and-black-striped pamphlets that have enabled generations of students to inhale the great classics of literature in those dark and desperate hours before the term paper is due.
(This was a tic of Skousen's; he later defended the Mormon policy of denying the priesthood to blacks with a pamphlet called "The Communist Attack on the Mormons").
The real story of Tilley's intelligent design, a lift from a nineteenth-century image of the gadfly Comte D'Orsay, must be much grimmer and more prosaic; after only five months of publication, Harold Ross's 1925 magazine shrank to a flimsy black-and-white pamphlet, only to be resurrected in a last-ditch burst of optimism.
He also used sympathetic black seamen to distribute pamphlets directly.
Douglas, who was regularly tailed by FBI agents, remembers seeing his artwork imitated on a forged pamphlet attacking another black organisation.
A couple of years ago, crew member Jayson Mussen dropped a propaganda pamphlet called "Too Black for BET".
Amongst these achievements, Galvin has branched out into poetry, and her new pamphlet of sonnets, Black and Blue, is a perfectly formed masterclass in poetic risk-taking.
