Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from whom the country expected an answer. For a long time President Eduard Benes had thought he knew where his home was. He was a European and a democrat. All his life he had believed in "synthesis." It was a faith, shared by millions of liberals everywhere, that the 20th Century's clashing opposites (even Communism and democracy) could be reasonably reconciled...
...this common meeting ground stands 20th Century journalism's great responsibility. Journalism has to talk to the physicist, his wife, his musician son and his political neighbor all at once. In its way and its world, journalism has to do as good a job as the women chattering at the well...
...less clumsy effort to tell the reader what kind of guy Piers is, or why he tries to grow turnips or what are the chances that he'll set fire to the haystack and burn up his house, wife and children; in short, to tell, across the 20th Century community's backyards of specialization, complexity and confusion, what the news is, and to tell it in such a way that its hearer will take it in and be able...
...free world are engaged in a great historical experiment; they are faced with the challenge of establishing and extending the first democratic civilization. For them, news has a meaning that it did not have for plain people in the days of Pericles or Pitt. The decisions of the 20th Century rest with the people. To act, they have to know and to care...
What "eye-terns" should be passed along from the 20th Century well of information...