Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would just like to add a brief comment to your fine account of the improved public relations efforts of the Los Angeles Police Department...
...Revelle, who was vacationing in California when he was contacted for comment, found the encylical letter an immediate stumbling block to the efforts of those men who are attempting to disseminate birth control information in predominately poor Catholic countries, the countries of South America, the nations of Central America, and the Phillipines. It will make the efforts of these men "very much harder," said Revelle and therefore in these non-industrialized countries where the poor would be less burdened by a smaller family, the Pope's pronouncement does not serve the needs of humanity. This encylical will especially hurt...
...Priscilla Goodbody, the imaginary little lady with the big scissors who keeps Johnny Carson from turning too blue? See TELEVISION, Talkathon of Comment...
Battle of Talkathons. Much of TV's comment and controversy are heard on the day-and-night conversation shows, which seem to be trying to turn TV into a talkathon. They frantically compete with each other for big-name, talkers. Joey Bishop interviews Ronald Reagan, Carson brings on Ayn Rand, Merv Griffin chats with Bertrand Russell. One night, Dick Cavett has Norman Mailer as his guest, the next night he leads a spirited discussion between James Bald win and Yale Philosopher Paul Weiss...
...their kind of personal journalism has its dangers, warns Fleming. It is based on the "more or less tacit consensus of the intellectual establishment that objectivity does not exist. Hence the personal comment which attempts to do no more than state one man's point of view on a certain patch of experience." "Pure objectivity," he says, is probably an unattainable ideal. "But this does not mean that it should be abandoned any more than we should stop trying to tell each other the truth because an awful lot of people in this world are liars...