Word: content
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liberties Union, the National Association of Theater Owners and Union, the National Association of Theater Owners and the Mass. cable operators) realized what practical form and direction the Commission's power could take. The Commission does not now--nor will it probably ever--have the power to rule on content and usage by fiat, as the idealist would have it do. While the industry remains small and barely manageable, the Commission has a chance to force a franchise set-up which will make the cable accessible to the public rather than the special interests...
...their ability to live constructively' even though in their own eyes it is what saves them from being victims of U.S, capitalism. They place their hope in the Marxist ideal of classless society without possessing Marz`s Knowledge of how that ideal must take root in a specific historical content. They join with the religion of Sovietism, and subscribe to the irrelevant mystique of working class revolution. And this leads ultimately to a more than paranoid view of American politics; to a rejection of the entire American culture, expect for the pseudo-folk or transcendental-poetic, No Bogart movies...
DOCTOROW'S book has a creative weight to match his historical content. He intends his book to be read as if it were being written in front of use we feel we are present at a first, groping recollection of submerged memories, but that is only Doctorow's cunning. In effect, our reading becomes an act of participation; this both dares Doctorow to match his craft against our knowledge of his trickery, and challenges us to delve into ourselves as deeply as does his narrator. Daniel's honesty accuses us: we have shied away from confronting our compromised selves...
...Nixon-Kissinger visages into her mind, then onto a carefully selected 135-lb. piece of pink marble (photographed in turn by Robert Crandall for TIME's cover). Those who have advocated a cover of a different shape, whether of a football coach or a militant feminist, must rest content until next year...
...problem of black Americans" during the previous year, a belief shared by blacks themselves. Perhaps largely for that reason, "concern" for black Americans ranked second from last among the 19 domestic problems in the Potomac query. Only the issue of mass transportation stirred less concern. The majority was content to maintain at the current level, reduce or end altogether spending to "improve the situation of black Americans." When questioned about welfare in a later survey, respondents indicated that it is not the money they begrudge as much as the free ride. Given a choice between a welfare program of cash...