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...first two assumptions made about the advent of TV were dead wrong: that it would bury radio and that it would be a threat to movies. From the start, TV has provided a generous showcase for other arts--radio performances and movies included. Millions of people who, in earlier centuries or even earlier decades of this century, would never have seen world-class ballets, operas, concerts or museum works of art have seen them on TV. Not quite the same as live, perhaps, but considerably better than nothing...
...with Fred Karno's Speechless Comedians. In 1913 he joined Sennett's Keystone Studios in New York City. Although his first film, Making a Living (1914), brought him nationwide praise, he was unhappy with the slapstick speed, cop chases and bathing-beauty escapades that were Sennett's specialty. The advent of movies in the late 1890s had brought full visibility to the human personality, to the corporeal self that print, the dominant medium before film, could only describe and abstract. In a Sennett comedy, speechlessness raised itself to a racket, but Chaplin instinctively understood that visibility needs leisure as well...
...With the advent of the '60s and the Vietnam War, Chaplin's American fortunes turned. He orchestrated a festival of his films in New York in 1963. Amid the loudest and longest ovation in its history, he accepted a special Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1972. There were dissenters. Governor Ronald Reagan, for one, believed the government did the right thing in 1952. During the 1972 visit, Chaplin, at 83, said he'd long ago given up radical politics, a welcome remark in a nation where popular favor has often been synonymous with depoliticization...
...Internet said Society who organized and moderated the discussion, pointed to legislation proposed by the Clinton administration that would make it easier for police officers to obtain patients' medical records, sometimes without their consent, as an example of the kind of infringement on personal privacy that could accompany the advent of information technology in medicine...
...course, the occasional "dark side" of technology peeks through the panegyric every now and then. But stories of Internet addiction and chat-room sexual misrepresentation tend to titillate rather than criticize. The advent of the Information Age is, in many ways, taken as an unqualified good for America and the world...