Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game is to make optimistic statements of near-normalcy in the White House and the nation, to print and broadcast them out of a sense of journalistic fairness, and then for some people, out of political loyalty and the fervent hope that believing will be father to fact, to act as if they believe them...
...characterizes this singular season. Haig's responses are those of honor, deeply rooted in his West Point heritage; of a loyal and brave officer following his commander anywhere. The anguish and frustration are behind his eyes and his voice. Haig's account of White House life, while broadcast and printed, drifted off into the mythical world the White House has created...
...appliance for interrupting silence. But to anyone over 35, it connotes a vast and magic theater of sound, a great coliseum of trivia and nostalgia. That coliseum will be opened to visitors this month when radio takes a giant step backward. The new CBS Radio Mystery Theater will broadcast an original drama every night of the week -including Sundays. The plays take full advantage of aural illusions and allow listeners to collaborate as they did in a vanished...
...would be a mistake to consider all of these programs classics - even of nostalgia. Radio drama was never with out deep and regrettable flaws. Homilies passed for wisdom; exposition could be ungainly. Caricature and stereotypes were the order of the broadcasting day, from Tonto's "Kemo Sabe" to the caricature of black servants on almost every soap opera. Still, radio drama, like its heroes, tended to be greater than any of its faults. If it was naive, it was no more than the reflection of a simpler epoch. If it was repetitious, it allowed each listener to color...
Composed in the hectic minutes preceding a Newsbreak broadcast, Osgood's verse veers erratically between Ogden Nash and Edgar Guest ("Nothing could be finer/ Than a crisis that is minor/ In the morning" reads one typical effort). "If you're writing a four-minute poem," Osgood explains, "and you have about a half-hour in which to do it, you accept whatever the muse lays...