Not So Good

First of all format. The Pelorus Press which does try to make Here and Now interesting as a piece of printing appears to be trying a little too hard. Illuminated letters are excellent but not too many—after all the more space there is to fill, the more to read, the more for 2/-, the better buy—fifteen oversize capitals is a little like too much seasoning with duck.

There is also an irritating habit of using double lead-ins to articles, leaders which end up two wide columns away from the following word. Britain Revisited, an article in Issue 5, is an example of bad makeup. It appears to me that this problem was made worse by an over-decorative capital "B."

One expects waffling and airy nothing filling up spaces. Expectations are fulfilled. A magazine with a policy of free discussion but without a policy about anything else must go somewhere and in this case the Statesman and Nation seems to haunt most of the contributors. As an example of space filling "Deterioration in Managerial Standards" shows a waste of good opportunity—after all what do managers really do?

This apparent aimlessness of the editorial mind will be overcome if the material is provocative enough—if Here and Now can start some real controversies as well as providing some good and interesting articles.