Word: channelized
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With today's factuous, fast-paced, highly mobile society, the need to channel human aggression has increased tenfold. Not only have running and nautilus, as a result, become increasingly popular, but so has the narcissistic quality of mastering control over the human body. The message seems to be that if we cannot control our relations in society, we can find comfort in the control of our own bodies...
...timid, ostensibly non-brutal culture, the need to channel human aggression has always proved somewhat of a problem. The macabre nature of Spain's bullfights revolts us, and even our own ancestral tradition of duelling gives us chills. Instead, we prefer something more in the vein of a game, where sportsmanship and fun--not victory and blood--are the central factors. The all-American solution to what we consider an un-American trait of violence has become football...
...David Susskind Show," a syndicated program featuring debate on social issues, was discontinued last August by Metromedia station WGBH, channel 2, in Cambridge, said Anne Samuels, a spokesman for WGBH...
...third network-linked cable service to collapse in little more than a year. The Entertainment Channel, which was financed in part by NBC's parent corporation, RCA, failed to attract subscribers. CBS Cable, a cultural channel, reached 5 million households but, like SNC, did not attract enough advertisers. Chairman Daniel Ritchie of Westinghouse Broad casting and Cable attributed SNC's woes to aggressive competition. Since SNC's debut, ABC, CBS and NBC have added a to tal of 33 hours a week of late-night and early-morning news shows. Thus, says Ritchie, "the availability of commercial...
...does not want to cover up for harassers. It is fully aware that sexual harassment is illegal. Through its policy, it is trying to avoid unwanted publicity; to administer justice without seeking revenge. Yet it is unable to convey this to a majority of the students. There is no channel for communication; there are no student representatives on the administration...